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CAMQIAMA TIMES SATURDAY. SEPT. 24th, 1949
SUPPORT OUR POLICE
lii.- 1 AHOhlNA TIMES that it is tinif
for It to tab a ■*taml ajraiust the jrrowiiipr bunih
..f hoodluiiiH. lt>afer» and lawtew elements in the
Hayti s..‘tion of Durham. We take this stauif in
spjte of the apparent lethargj’ of many of our
lading citiieus hero, who either through fear,
.ir laek of interest are silent on this important
matter ,
l^»t \v«ik three young htH>dlum!> in the Haytj
tion of Durham went on a shootin^f raimiiatte
on Kayftteville Street As we understand it
one shot was fired aiul the na.son the others
Wire not the jiun in the handsi of one of the
w.iiUI b.-nuii»riier8 jammed. This was in bnmd
dM>liKht with the streets full of men, wom.n
auil .liildnn jiedtstrians, but the IuhkIUuus did
H I pare whether or not they killed an innm-ent
l.\st«uler Tile only thing they eared alHKit w^s
iiiipn-^ini: on the on lookers how bail they were,
\,.A wf don't know why the k»ui in the hands
of «.uf of tli.->** eriminals jammet. We rather
think it \ras the hand of a mereilul Gol that
iiii.-rvened to save the life of some child or
picw n-up who iniplit have aeeidentally walked
mill !lie line of fire.
.Vow, Mr. Reader, if you have read the above
we wish to inform you that the police de
partment of Durham reports that neither of
thev- e)di)rits is in jail. Wait a miiiute. Mr.
Kead.*r. don’t hit the ceiling. It is not the fault
of the ix)lic«‘ department alone. The fault is
•‘(pmlly yours and all other resjieetable citizens
in the Hayti'.sect ion who tolerate, pamper and
rloak for these infenial ra.seal.s who roam our
streets Avithout repard for life, limb or the
preh-enee of any one.
Walk down Fayetteville and Pettiprew Streets
any time of day or nipht and on certain corners
and s]>ots one often has to get out in the street
to pavs. Profane language, fights, near fights
and boisterousnesK from men and even women
who. day in and day out, have refused to engage
in hontst labor to make a living. These are the
trouble makern. these are the ones who >ihoot up'
and ilown our streets and do other things to
niakf life almost unbearable ut certain spots
in the lla\ti seefion. It is you, Mr. Ri‘ader, you,
who havv tolerated this kind of^ conduct and
made these hooillum.s feel that they are eute.
Howi ver alert and energetic police may be
they need the support and backing of every
respectabli- citizen in Durham, especiaily in the
Ilayti section, if the police are going to clean
lip this intolerable situation.
The I’AKOLINA TIMES takps its stand on
thi' side of law and order, it takes its stand
iipuiiist every loafer, howUum and cro»k in the
Ilayti section as well as other s»*ctions of Dur
ham. It wants them all to kniow that this new.s-
papcr is against every last one of them.
We do not intend to wait until some innocent
.'iti/.en is shot down by some of these damnable
crooks to shed erocolile tears and then call for
action by the police department. We lake our
.stand here and Nr>W. We want the police to
engage in a clean-up campaign. We want dives
invaded, loafers, crooks and these so-called bad
men .irrestcl and slamraeil in jail. We want
the courts to crack down on all of these hellish
gangstf'rs and ptit them behind prison bars so
that the lives and property of respectable cit
izens may be protected.
We have no patience or respect for those per
sons who phone this office or report these crooks
to us in the street in whispering tones and re-
(|uest that their names not be mentioned. We
look upon such persons with the same contempt
as we do the gangsters and loafers of our city.'
This is our stand on this vital issue and we
take it as we have taken others in the past with
the full belief that in the end the record will
prove that we are right.
'WATCH YOUR STEP UNCLE"
carry
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READOUST MYSELF
PRCJU«C£S
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Health To All • . .
SUPPORT FEDERAL AID TO
EDUCATION
I’nless interestei^ citizens get busy and write
their congTessmen to support the Federal aid
to education bills now before the House of
Rfprcsentatives, the issue is a dead duck. Ap
parently a number of congres.smen, including
I'hairmaJi John 1.^‘sinski of Michigan, are
dftcnnined that the legislation shall never be
pasw-d by the 81st Congress. It is now up to
you -Mr. Average Citizen to bring enough pres-
sun- to liear on your congres.smen to force the
bills to the floor of the lower house where it is
Iwlit'ved it will be passed
Then- are four million children in the I'nited
StHTis between the ages of 5 and 17 who arc
not enrolled in any school; then* are nearly
thill- million perv»ns over 14 j’cars of age who
;ir.- illiterate and over eight million 14 years
and over who have less than five years schooling.
In World War II, if)5,000 young men were re
jected for military’ service because of elu«a-
tional deficieh'cies.
.'uch a deplorable condition is certain to grow
w(irs* unless federal aid can be secured by those
states that are unable to provide educational
oppfirtunities themselves.
CONSISTENCY
What has b«*come of the ca.'jC of Andrew J.
-\I ay. the doughty one-time chairman of the
House Military Affairs Committee? The on«
who lianned the circulation within the Army
of the little pamphlet, “The llaces of Mankind,”
Avbich gave the, scientific facts on what is known
about race differences? The one who was in-
ftlcTPd und^ eonvieted of crimes i^aiitst the.CrOV-
crnnient for the accomplishment of which he
used his high office?
We seem to remember that he beggel off, t»r
ajipealed. or something, so that he never was
punished. The RaleighTIMES recently brought
hiiii to mind in an editorial which pointed out
ihat he is draw ing a $300 a month jiensirtii as an
ex-meinl>er of Congress. We do remeniber that
his'district defeated him the next ti.^e he came
up for re-election after his exposure. But as a
discredited and convicted man who b«‘trayed the
trust conferred on him as a legislator high in
The amount involved in the bill is 300 million
dollars. Xo state will receive lens than $5 for
each child of school age. Two-thirds of the full
amount, it is estimated, will be distributed in
states where the greatest need demands.
The bill provitles that in states where schools
are maintained under a segregated systeiu that
such schools shall receive funds in proportion
to the population ratio of the minority r.n ial
groups to the total population of the state.
In his State-of-the-I’nion mes.sage to the Mist
Congress. President Truman urged that the
Federal aid to education .bill he passed. In sup
port of his stand on this matter, citizens should
not only write their eongres-smen, but the presi
dent also in orrler that he may know that they
are with him in his effort to have the bill enacted
into law.
We urge our readers, churches, clubs,
fraternities and other organizations to wi*ite
your congressmen now and tell them that you
want the Federal aid to education legislation
passed now. Every school principal and teach
er shonhl feel it his personal responsibility to
secure signatures to petitions for its passage.
the councils of his country he not only has
escaped punishment, but receives from his coun-
try’s government an income exceeding that of
millions of honest aild patriotic citizen.s, in
cluding the writer of this piece.
What has become of J. Parnell Thomas, the
congres,sman from Xew Jersey who once show-
(*d such enthusiasm as head of the Un-American
Activities Committee in protecting the country
from the machinations of the unpatriotic, and
w ho w as under a cloud for allegedly using his of
fice to jirouiote in an illegal way his private gain?
As the TIMES remarked, he has spj'iit nearly
all the past year in a government hosjiital at
almost entirely goveniment expt'iise, taking
advantage of the prerogative of his office — the
office I’or which there is at least strong evidence
he had disqualified himself and laid himself
open to criminal prosecution.
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VOLUME 27—NUMBER 38
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 1949
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TB—WHY COMPLETE
REST?
The ability to yst is an art,
aiul in the nisli of modern civ
ilization it has almost become u
lost lu't, Sonic of us nevei' really
leiun how to roi»t and ithei'x
learn it the hard way when tJiey
are forced into comiiletc rent to
combat a serious illnes.s.
As a matter of fact, complete
rest is basic to the cure of most
ills of the human body. Medicine,
seintms, drugji, diut, all play
important part in .lighting sick-
newt and dist'Jise, but they wouUl
be far leJss effective without the
physical n'st lliat is necessary
to the restoratinit^f health.
For example, fundamental in
the tieHtnieiit lor tuberculosisj
IS rest coiu|)lete rest under
.iie.lieiil supervision,
Soiiietiiut‘s it i« iliffieult for a
tiihereiilous patient to uuder-
stiHnl wh>' he must rest eon-
,,’iintly and completely, especial
ly ir his disease is in an early
sta.ire and he does not look or
feel very ill.
Tile patient’s lung has a big
job to do in the constant intake
i>l oxygen to keep the body sup-
,)liiil. When at complete rest,
the tuberculous patient breathe#
I'ewer tiiiu'K and less deeply than
w hen he is moving about, laugh-
i or talking, oi; vn'cn just sit-
rmir iip- iH'd therefore, there }s
less fctrain on the lung. As its
wftrk is cut down, the damaged
lung is given a t'hance to heal.
Once the tuberculous patient
begins to rest and relax com
pletely, mentally as well as
physically, all the body’s
strength is marshalled to fight
the tuberoulosis germs and their
destructive work,
The patient can best get this
complete rest so necessary to his
cure in a good sanatorium or
tuberculosis hospital. The doc
tor may advia« additional treat
ment, but rest will still be basic
to the tuberculous patient’s
cure.- '
Spiritual Insight . .
‘SPIRITUAL SICKNESS"
By Reverend Harold E. Roland
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
man. The soul is starved. Its
powers are damned up behind
the wall of hatred. It’s like a
stagnant pool or a room ft^ll
of foul air.
Thus Jesus rej(;cled hatred-
He saw its ill-etfects in the soul-
sickiiess of those about Him. He
hate
“Love your enemies
good to them that
you.'’—Matt, 5;44.
In the time of .)esus, tradi
tion and human nature demand
ed that one should love an eii-
1‘jiiy and hate ,a friend. The
teaching of .Tcsus broke with
1i:iylition and stoKl in bold de
fiance of human nature, .lesus
injeeted t li e revolutionary
thouglit of becoming the spir
itual aggressor by loving those
that hate you. In this sublime
insight Jesus recognized hatred
IS a di'adly vicious and destruc-
ti\’e form of spiritual sickness.
He was right. Hatred is a crip
pling anci bli.Lditing spiritual
NieUness, Rvcrx’ individual is
suhjeet to ravages which tlirt^at-
en the very existence of'man. Tt
's innre iiienaeiii'.r to man than
all tlH“ ])iiysicjil arHictlon’s cTini-
hined. It poisions and degrades
the Iminan son!. Its destructive
tiower dwarfs the Ix'auty of the
liiin'ian soul. It reduces man
from a suii-itiial giant to a mis-
■rable pigmy.
Jesus, the Divine Physician,
diagnosed and gave prescrip
tion for this deadly spiritual
sickness of the human family.
He declares that love alone
wdth its creative and healing
power is the remedy for this
form of spiritual sickness.
There iire tlirt*e possible ef
fects of this malady upon tlu'
spirit and soul of man :
In the first place it destroys
the value'and worth in us and
others. It plunges the soul in
to darkness and leaves it
stranded behind the bars of
prejudice and intolerance. It
posions and dries up the foun
tain of love. It destroys your
inner peace. It blinds you. It
raises a smoke screen so that
you cannot get a true nicture
of the object of your liatred.
Ill the seeoi^ place it dries up
the springs of i-reative thought,
imd fiction. This is wliaha dis-
tinpiiished Southern womaii had
in mind sometime ago when she
said that the two par+ies to ttte
social striiL'gle in the South were
sick. Slhe is right. .*V bad *ase of
soul sickm'ss nITliets both sides.
Here we have sunshine, a mod
erate climate and vast resources.
Vet, this spiritual sickness be
clouds the sunshine of the sonl.
Tt drains away the va.st creative
enerin’ of thonffht and action.
.( In the third place the
spiritual sickness of liafred
means death to the spirit of
saw the m^l-nourit>hed and sick
ly spirits of thos‘ fed with the
venom of hatred rather than the
life givipg vitamins of the spir
it"—love. I He prescribes love to
prevent ^nd cure this sickness
of the soul. Hatred ijenles,
wounds, and destroys life be
cause it disrupts its fruits of
peace, joy and conununion with
God and men,
National Council Of Negro
Womeri To Hold Annual Meet
In Washington In November
WASHINGTON
Women United — The Gate
way to Democracy, is the theme
that will prevail at the 14th An-
Annual Convention of the Na
tional Council, ik> the revision of
the Constitution and by-laws to
meet the increasing needs and
imal Convention of the National services of the organization. The
(’ouncil of Negro Women, No
vember I."), It), 17, 18 which will
be held at the Departmental
.Vmlitoriuni, S. Department
of Lafor, AVashiiigton, D. C.
'riii,=i convention will be un-
pretedenteil in the history of the
Council. Mrs. Mary JlcLeod Be-
tluuie, Foundrr-President, will
retire as active presid(*nt of the
organization. In announcing the
C'all to the Convention, Mrs.
liethune .said, “As we ])repare
for the 14tli Annual Convention
of the National Council of Ne-
."■ro Women, wt“ recognize the
world-wide call for the united
service of the women of A;merica
and the world. We invite the
members of the Council and all
intere.sted women to attend the
convention and give to us the
insi»iratioiial and unifying ex
periences tlic.v have had during
the years, and to lielj) chart the
eours“ for our org^iization for
years to come,
‘‘1 will turn my gavel over
to the younger women of Amer
ica with unyielding confldence
in their ability to contribute
ably and full.v to tiie splendid
contribution all women are mak
ing toward world peace. Though
the National Council our young
women have a distinctive op-
portunit.v to make their voices
heard and their influences felt
all over the world. We are con
stant,Iv be^ig called upon to
niake,4l^-iKivo choices in all areas
of life, and to give competent
leadershij) in these areas in
every cit,\'. county and commun
ity, Significant stud.v and work
on our part together with co
operation. will give to the world
a better standard of service and
leadership.”
One of the most important
itemd on the agenda of the 14th
delegates in convention will seek
to create a ri'alistie, well-knit
oi’ganization that will make for
greater unity and greater pro
gress toward the fulfillhieht of
the purpow's of the National
Council.
Said Mrs, liethuuy, “ The peo
ples of the world today are look
ing largely to the w.omen in the
building of a lasting peace, and
■so it is vitally important that
an organization such as the Na
tional Council of Negro Women
create that kind of organization
al structure which will strength
en the fulfillment of the prin
ciples upon which its was found
ed; and will also prvoide an op
portunity for growth and in
creasing competence in the per
formance of all phases of its pro
gram,
NCNW Official
To Broadcaet
From Manila
WASHINGTON, D. C;
Mrs. Edith S. Sampson,
Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the National
Council of Negro Women, and
a member of the Town Hall
World Tour, will participate
in the broadcast from Manila
of the discussion series en*
titled “Americans the World
Over."
This series of broadcasts is
being carried by the National
'Broadcasting Oompany net
work and is heard in the Unit-
ed States every Saturday noon
from 12:15 to 12:30.
Mrs. Sampson will be on the
October 1 broadcast.
Browsing ar Brower
By FRANK BROWER
(For United Negro Press)
COCKEYED OPTIMIST
Now you can have no fear
For Frankie Boy is still here.
And, eveiything will be fine,
Before the end of ’49.—Big Joe.
A PASS AND A RAISE—The poker playing period
of recession is using psychology on us.these day It
seems. After falling off for ten successive
months, factory employment in North Caro
lina rose la.st month bj a gain of 20,200 peo
ple who can now have butter aiul bread ....
This editor called several influential people
to warn of their and our la-st chance Monday
uight to he heard ut the City Hall before the
Council on the question of Federal Housing
for Durham. You shouhl .m*e beautiful Chavis
Heights a low cost hon.sing development in
Italeigh containing 2;11 dwelling units
JUST A KISS AND A ROSE — Is Benny Joyner’s fav-
orite song which he was singing while washing the four
teenth story windows of the Hill- Building one nite when
someone in Washington Duke hollowed, “Hey whatcha do
ing out there,” and threw a pop bottle which terminated
Joyner’s dangerous work, hanging up a strap in the nite air,
for a while. In a few minutes he went t0 the 18th floor to
that he could wash the outside of the windovrs in peace, since
no other build climbs that high, and his "Kisq And A Rose**
could be chirped again. C. S. Hicks has nothing but praise
for his two brave employees sepia Joyner and bis partner
Willie Mitchell who can’t sing and wont look down. They
work from 11 P. M. to 7 A. M. and Joyner has washed 35
of the 430 windows per nite for the past seven years and
Mflchell the tuune for a few months, and neither has yet bad •
trouble with their trusty belts .and hooks. We hope they
wont, *
STOP, A PERIOD XS A DOT — From a reliable source, it
is reported that ag^in the jury iiuestion popped up in the Raleigh
Speller case, where the original cbnviction was November 13th,
1947, and this new discovery September 1949. There were no black
or red marks on the jury list this time, but when the names were
separated, the beige members’ names were followed by a period
or a dot, which didn’t even follow the abbreviated jury on the
other list , .
FAMOUS FEET
Two pairs have walked on mutual floors.
The other has carressed both onr shores.
Their head# were run on the front of this page
January 29th a»U none were encoged,
STOP THE FEET by naming these three pairs and some
thing olse can take the space. The ante has raised to a four >
year subscription. Send in the names . . . Ezza Charles it is
reportedi w|ll ^d the pretty Denver maiden Carmen Bow
ers, instead of Mrs. Lu|a Belle Furgeson, the nite club own
er in Cincinnati . . . Dr. Helen Edmonds has returned from
a vacation to pQints north , . . New additiqns to the North
Carolina College staff »qd grad school are attractive maidens;
brunette Miss Thelm# Perry of Georgia State and Savannah
' find bUnd blonde Miss G. M. Haith of Bennett , . .The neice
of J, C. H»Abard was feted with a party at bis country lodge
past bathnit* .,,
BENNY GOODMAN AND WARDELL GRAY stole the show
from the 20 peice band in Raleigh last Wednestlay nite. Wardell,
a young handsome tall and thin tenor sax player of our race was
applauded again and again for encores in his sax styling of many
tunes including “Star Dust” which we like so w’ell, ha-ha. The
white dancers entertained well on the dahce floor doing their own
style of bare foot jitterbugging latt middle-day nite . . . Many
Durhamites and Holeigh professionals made believe they w’ere at
the Paramount in Big Town . . ,
BEHIND THE HEADLINES — Newspaper report* aro
always sounding the prai^ of other people, but the reader
rarely knows what*s behind the headline, or who. Well, any-
who, the guy we are writing about will kill us when he ketch
us, and his moniker is Alex Rivera who married the pretty
dotter of Mrs. Ruth Edwards. He’s a meaningful writer who
often sends you to Webster, and the prolific source of im
portant current stories originating along the southeastern sea
board for his paper. He gets much of his information for
high interest from his friends in high places in addition to
his go-get-it attitude. He served in the intelligence division
of the Navy during the first, oops, we mean the last war,
and is still exploding ... He greatly impressed the faculty
of A. and T. last spring with his lecture on the history of
Negro newspapers, pulling no punches as to what has to be
done. Later he was the driving factor in founding the Dur
ham Press Club which feted Governor Hastie with the finest
buffet supper ever held in Durham ... Last, but by no means
least, he heads the Public Relations Committee of the James «
E. Shepard Foundation now closing the campaign for $250,-
000 of which $50,000 is expected from Durham where the
benefits of Dr. Shepard’s work is most felt, stated local As
sistant Chairman Asa Spaulding who called a meeting of the
workers last week to get a report of the progress. Dr. C. C.
Spauldii^ said, “There are no Alps. We are going over the
top.’* Rivera, suggested and the organization adopted the
idea of a “TIME CAPPSULE** filled with present day
documents, newspapers, recordings, transcription?, pictures,
lists of contributors, etc. to be placed In a vault of the Shepard
statue and to be opened a hundred years hence, in 2050 . . .
Yes Alex is still thinking and writing, and all of us ought to
get our orchids or onions while were are living.'*
REV. VALENTINE TO PHILLY — Rev. James A. Valen
tine will not preach anymore under advice of his physician, it is
reported, after sttffering' another stroke in Asheville and losing
sight of one eyp. He has gone to Philly to rest . , Suirar Child
Robinson, the Detroit pianist has finally put a record on the mar-
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