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4 PAQM TWO cARouwA TIMES SATURDAY, OCT. lit, 1949 "And Wc Coll Th«m Unciyilized A SICK WORLD AND THE REMEDY ThU » m «ick world, but we rK'tx* it is uot sick Th^ Rrini, t-okl and »\uldon a«- of Trmnan last week tliat Rwm lias the atomic bomb, iu spite of the wMrtliiV in tile dark of our top nu>n in scii'nue , aafl fownunent, makes us shudder. They,told US tibat Ruaiia oou^l^^ot poasibly ‘have the atomic bo^ btfore 1952. Ruwia sh^ has had it ais«e 1947. Our ttientista now tell us that “if this is the fint Roauan atomic bomb, Russia is still four yean behind u«. ” But our scientists, who now appear to be (ruessing about the whole matter, could be wrong again. What oomfort can we take in this country in bein^r or not being four years ahead or behind another country unlfss we intend to adopt the fooliKh and ill-fated phiioaophy that survi%'al on this planit shall go to him that “gits thar fustest with the mo«testf" Hare we any assurance that humanity or even thia planet can burvivc an atomic war in which two major nation.s, hell bent on destroy ing each other, are enpajred f It appears to us that both our own country and Russia are now is a predicament that forces them to adopt a pbiloaophy of cooperation or neither will need any kind of operation. Tlu> utter futility of seeking security in in^ stnlmcnts of force,seems to us to l>e Huiculal.' It therefore appears that man has reiieht'd that |K)int in his existence when the only refuge or remetly for his illuess i>» spiritual. It uiuy be that for the first time in tlieir existence the builders of our civilization huvf i'ome face to face with the grim reality that the stone they rejected in their mad rush for pow er “is become the head of the corner.’" Here then we think is the one and only remedy that can save the wOrld in this dark hour—this h(»ur when two of the gn-atest nations of the earth an* e*ngaged in a raci* the goal of which fan only b«‘ total disstruction for us all. An economy built on wealth, a social order built .on segregation, discrimination and the like have brought us to the wretched point in the road where our nation is looked upon as be ing unfit for world leadership.. In spite of the rehictancy of a vast number in this eoniUry to lay aside their ideas of a superior race, we have got to aiKl must insist that they abandon all of these old beliefs and customs and retrieve the rejected stone which knows no race, (‘reetl or color. WELCOME DUKE, U. N. C AND N. C. C. Because Negroes have playetl such an im portant part in the growth and development of Durham, we feel it is only fitting and right that they extend a welcome to the thousands of new old students Avho are now beginning their aehool terms at Duke University, the University of North Carolina and North Carolina College. Durham is one of the nation’s largest tobacco manufacturing centers and it is with parodnable prida that wt^ point to the fact that the blood, sweat and brawn of thousands of^egroes have into the development of the tobacco indus try here. SufBcfr it to say that had it not been for the cheap labor which Negroes furnished, at • tremendous sacrifice, that the tobacco indus try in Durham would newr have advanced to its present financial position. In addition to fhe v^t tobacco industry, Dur ham is'(Hie of the nation’s leading centers of Negro business. Here, new and old students will have the opportunity to learn at first hand something about what the Negro is doing in the world of business. Here is located the largest insurance company owned and operated by the race, the second largest bank, as well as its sec ond largest building and loan association, its only fire insurance company, a bonduig coni^ pany, real estate and rental agencies and num erous smaller businfsses that are not foiuid in the average city the size of Durham. So, on behalf of Durham Negro population w extend a hearty welcome to the students all of universities and colleges of this comniunify and vicinity. Give Freely !! HELP TO SEND OUR MISSIONARIES TO THE UNCIVILIZED WRTS OF AMERICA of Difference Between A Sfat'esmdn And A Hatesman It is interesting to read the comments made by some of the congre.ssmen from North Caro lina on the inclusion of a Nejrro in the list of appointees to West Point ililitary Academy by Senator Frank Graham. That tlu* most of them oppose the appointment of a Negro is no sur prise to a single sensible Nefjro in North Caro lina o ranywhere else in the Houth. When the average Southern congres.sman speaks of defending the democratic way of life be does not mean defending it for Negroes. The applies to those who talk about that part of the Christian religion which speaks of the fatherhood of Gotl and the brotherhool of man. We wonder however, what kind of a govern ment or religion ours would bo that woxild have a foundation built on discrimination. Even the benefactors of such a government and religion DOWN IN DIXIE By DON WEST All is not dark down in Dixie. Make no mis take about that. A ground swell of good old human decencj', alwaj'B latent with the common “cracks” peo- pk, is stirring through the piney woods and mountains. It is troubling the bos.ses of a Klan dominated South—those flunkies of Wall Street who use prejudice and bigotry to confuse issues and keep dis-unity between the Negro people and common 'white folk. It is troubling these bomes and breaking through what the Rev. Glaad« Williams of Aiabaawi calls “the cottou enrtain.” Regardless of how reluctantly or how in effectively they may try to enforce it, this senti ment of the people cau.sed the Alabama I>*gisla- ture to pass an anti-mask law, and^ it threw the chief Alabama Ku Kluxer behind jail bars. It caused the late Sam Oreen. (Jrand Dragon of Georgia, to issue his order for the Klan to remove its pillow slips — no more public par- would in time lose respoct for it. A government that does not dispense justice (•(lually among its subjects or a religion that in cludes one group of mankind and rejects an other cajinot long endure. The foundation is rotten and history has always proved that it eventually come lo a disastrous ending. North Carolina should thank Senator Frank Graham for a breath of pure air that is not defiled with s«‘gregation and di.scrimination. Senator Graham will probably have to face the Negro appointee incident in his campaign for reelecfion in 1950. W know some senatorial candidates who would gladly rai.se the is.sue if thought it would take a few votes from him and add « few to themselves. There is a vast differene> between a statesman anrl a hatesman. rades in Georgia with covered faces. Members of Georgia’s General Assembly predict that the next session of that body will pass a no mask law also. It is also bringing embarras.snient to Georgia’s Klan Governor, Talmadge. At a recent pree eoii- ference it caused him to “dis-remember” whe ther he had,^^eially made the head of the Ku Klux Klan attache to membership on the tlov- emor’s Staff, t^iough the certificate of appoint ment, signed personally by Talmadge on Nov ember 17, 1948, was proudly displayed on the witlls of the Grand Dragon’y office. Such an ^pointment surprises no Georgian, of course. Talmadge openly welcomed Klan support m his campaign. The Klan’s part in his election is well'known to all. So i^is not strange that the Grand Dragon should have been thus officially honored by the appointment. The point we make — the significant point — is that now the Governor would like to forget (Please turn to Page Six) Naval Research Helps Doctors Prevent G>lds With New Allergy Drug rihc 4 Health To All . Ck CarSSU €liiie0 IHInEBHKI Published Every Saturday By The CAROLINA TIMES Publishing Co. 814% Fayetteville Street — Durham, N, C. - Phones: L-7423 and J-7871 Member National Negro Press Association VOLUME 27—NUMBER 39 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1949 Entered as Second Class 'matter at the Post Offices at Durham, North Carolina under the act of March 3, 1879. i National Advertising Representative Inter state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. Branch Office: 5 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, III. L: 1. AUSTIN . . W. F. BROWER , CLATHAH ROSS . Editor and Publisher, . . Executive Editor , . Managing Editor M. B. HUDSON . V. L. AUSTIN . . M. C. BURT, JR. 1.. . . Business Manager . - City Editor Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $ 2.00 $ 3.00 3 Years 5 Yean . •- $ 9.00 - . $15.00 ALLERGIES Allerjry, or sensitivity to var ious snbstiinces. is not a new ail nient that suddenly struck for the first time during this gener ation. Ihit the fact that allerg}- is n sponsible for a number of e»)iiiliti()iis which were formerly unexi»iainetl lias been known to medical science only for vhe past few years. The Iverson who is allergic reacts peculiarly to contract with a certan substance or a- gent that is harmless to most people. The allergic person is u.suaily normal and healthy in all other r(*siM'ets. Will'll the offending agent af fects the. skill of an allergy pa tient. it causes a rash .similar to ffzeiiia. Another coniirKUi aller gic-remt ion is hay fe\Tr. a eoii- ditioii resulting when,the eyes and nose of the sufferer are sen sitive to ragweed pollen or poll en of other plants. An allergic person whose bronchial tubes ate affected by some agent, caiifiing ilifficulty in breatliing, is said to ha^t‘ asth ma. We still have a lot to leam about ’allergies, but progress is constantly being- tnade toward relieving and even curing aller gic jiatients. When he seeks med ical treatment, the person with allergic reactions will find that the doctor questions him thor oughly about his habits, his oc cupations, his home life, envir onment, diet and other Jiving habits. Before he can sjiecifically ad vise or treat his allergic patient, the doctor must act as a detec tive and a complete history of the patient furnishes him with “clues” in finding the offend ing agents find substances. , Then the doctor can advise his patient in avoiding things to which the sufferer is sensitive, and, in some cases, the doctor can even treat his patient so that he will build up resistance to the substances bothering him. In his search for the offending agents, the doctor may also use skin tests on his allergic pa tients. Among the most common substances causing sensitivitj- are milk, eggs, fish, alcholic beverages, spices, plant pollens, house dust, animal hairs or dandruff, tobacco, inseeticides and drugs. An allergy in itself is not a serious illnes.s. But things, like hay fever .and asthma, Avhen neglected, can interfere with sound health as well as cause great discomfort. The person who suspects he has an allergy takes a wise step when he con sults His doctor for relief. Spiritual Insight . . “SPIRITUAL SICKNESS” By Reverend Harold E. Roland Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church “The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.” —James 3:6 Man has shown great skill in the subjection and control of the niiglity forces of nature — steam power, electricity and a- tomic energy. Hut man the mas terpiece of the creation, made in the image and likeness of Gotl, has been a miserable failure in the discipline and control of his own nature. This failure is the heart of the contemporffi’v war of nerves. The longue is the most stub born Fiietor in the needed discip line of human nautre. The Apos tle .lames rightly recognized the undisciplined and uncontrolled tungue a destructive flauic in. society. I’lider control it is a sreat blessing but geared to evil it destroyed the delicate balance of harmonious human relations. Why did God give us two ears ! and one tongue / Was it to hear much and speak sparingly? Such a practice is the essence of wis dom. If we use our tongrue for evil, defamation and confusion, it is better to hear much and speak a little. Too many have failed in the art of listening and have become skillful in the evil art of gossip. We are too haaty to spread the destructive flame of gossip. How do you use your tongue? I§ it used in a ministry of peace or confusion ? Every in dividual needs to pray constant ly with the Psalmist: “Set a watch, 0 Lord before my mouth, keep the door of my lips. . ” We need to ponder the far- reaching damage of a single" word. Beware your tongue! It is indeed a fhightj' fire and a workl of i»i}Hity. We are-right' ly admonished to bridle our ton gues. Misused it is a destructive flame. Its an instrument of sep aration and confusion. One word can destroy a life. One word can wreck a home. One word can instigate a bloody race roit. One word can crush and fnistrate a budding Genius. One word can slam the door of opportunity in your face. One word and its flaming evil consequences can destroy a reputation. Thoughtless^ word haw been the wedges of separa tion in a million homes. The spiritual seer was right when he said; “Even a fool when he holdeth his peai-e is counted wise, but he that repeateth a matter separates very friend .'. .” Beware that word, Finally a tongue geared to a healing ministry of peace, under standing and love is a blessing immea.surable in influence. Some one near j"ou needs a word of love, encouragement and hope. Why withhold it? Slpeak it and become a blessing, Join the heavenly network and broadcast ■f}ors redeeming love to those all around you in discourage ment and despair. Weigh every word on the scales of love that it may be acceptable in the sight of God. Other Editors Say NO DISCRIMINATION? I If Raleigh Speller is guilty of the crime of which he has been three times convicted he sfioiild |)ay the penalty decreed by law for it. Hape is a horrible crime, and rapists are unfit to be mem bers of society. Tf the evidence adduced against Speller is tru> it was an especially aggravated ease of rape. But since the crime is an c- norinous one and since con.vic- tion of rape carries the extreme penalty, icoiiviction shoitld occur only oil the basis of absolutely conclusive evidence after a trial in M'hich the accused has been accorded every right due the de fendant. The clock-1 ike regularity with which Xegro accused of as.saults on white women are found guilty .ind sentenced to death in North Carolina and the South general ly would indicate that Negro defendants are at a distinct dis- advantajrc when on trial in such cases. The sonthern mind, when it comes to sex cases across race lines is not likely to be distin- gui.shed by lack of bia.s. So when four commissioners of Vance (!ounty testified, con cerning di.scrimination on the selection of a jury for Speller’s 3rd trial, that they had never known any racial discrimination in the selection of juries in their county, while the register of deeds testified that he had never known a Negro to .serve on a Vance County jury, anyone could tell that somebody Avas wrong. Yet the presiding judge rules that he had heard no in- formaiton showing purposeful discrimination in jury selection. With one third of Vance Coun ty’s population colored, it is mathematically impossible, that over a period of years' no Negro would-qualify for jury, except b.v design. DEATH STALKS HIGHWAY The extent to which we have failed to control the dangerous featnres of that generally bene ficent device, the automobile, was reflected in the almost cas ual and callous manner in which the nation’s press predicted (and accurattjly) a record-brcak ing death toll from motor acci dents over the holiday week-end. It was conceded beforehand that a^ertain number, and a very large number, of Americans, were doomed to death while pur suing business or more likely pleasure during th6 Labor Day period. If the newspapers could have named names and thereby warned the persons dcntinwl to be victims, it would have wonderful. The tragedy I« that Uf'f on th*’ highways is J!x«ppt for the Hurvivon* of Itt/' .dxntii which proved fatal to th"ir trav eling compani/yn«. and ihf rt-la- tivest and c-lf/Vf fri^-nd# of the victims who di*^I, t/>o f»^ will regard the figure oi over 300 deaths for the week-end a any thing more than a statistic. And the same kind of thing will hap pen, on a nommhat smaller scale NEW YORK New aiitihistaniinic drug dev eloped by phiivniHseeutical chem ists to relieve symptoms »)f hay fever aiul other allergic disor ders are being us»d with great success to ward off the costIj common cold, a survey of medi cal research dis‘lost‘d lust week. The new “cold kilh'rs are reported by dtictors to b‘ as much as !•() percent ..‘ffectivc in stopping the ons**t ot a cold it used within an hour after the first cold syiiiploiiis arc noticed. Physicians prescribe the tablets under the drug name “Coricid- in,’’ derived from “cory/.a,” meaning tl^t* eonitiion (‘old, and “cide,” to kill. Corieidin tablets eoiitain in their red coating a small a- mount of the newly perfected autihistaminie drug Chlor-Trimc ton, reported to be the most potent of the type used to re lieve thf snce/ing, siiifflintr, stoppcd-up nasal pas.sagcs and hives of hay fever and other al lergies. The tablet center con tains aspirin and other coni- I pounds generally prescribed for I voids. The discovery that the anti- 1 histaniinic drugs stop the onset of colds was made accidentally by a number of doctors treatin(j[ patients with antihistaminica for the relief of the running noses, itching eyes and hives suffered by patients allergic to pollens. Further research with anti- histaminics led to the statement this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association that “the commmon cold is an allergic response in susceptible persons to contuet with a speci fic protein which is the cold virus or its product.” The most important research study on the role of antihistam- inics as cold preventives was carried out by Capt John M. Brewster. M. 0., U. S. Npvj', at the r. S. Naval Hospital at Great Lakes, 111., with 572 cold patients, over a seven-month period in the station’s cold clinic. NEW COOK FOR MRS. FDR IS NATIVE CAROLINIAN; PRAISES HER MISTRESS By C. BENEDICT SANFORD Cooking For Mrs. Franklin 0. Roosevelt, widow of the late President of the Lnited States, is a big job — but ilrs. Roose velt is “the nicest person I’ve ever worked for.” That^i the oj)inion of Miss Seldon Quick, H.l-year-old San ford native who has presided in the former First Lady’s kitch en at Hyde Park, N. Y., or in New York City since June 1 of this yea p. Home for a vacation recently with her mother, Mrs.. Minnie Quick who lives on Route 2 a- bout a miles and a half East of Sanford, Jliss Quick told what it’s like to he In 4aily contact with one of the wbrld’s most famous and admired women. “Mrs. Roosevelt is a swell person/’ is a, summary of her opinions. BIG MEALS SERVED Preparing a meal for 20 or 30 people is nothing unsual i>i Mi'S. F. D.- R,’s household, the cook explained. She does all the kitch en work alone, prei)aring vege tables and taking care of the many details of a job that brings different demands almost every day. ** Sometimes, in a spare mom ent, Mrs. Roosevelt comes into the kitchen and talks with her and every morning when Mrs. Roosevelt is home, the cook goes ■in and plans the meals with her (imployer. Mrs. Roosevelt makes out all the menus daily, the cook says, and together they discuss preparation of moals each day. !Meals are st'rvod by a butler,^ one of four Negro servants the household, and later tfe cook wash the dishes together. Other servants are a chauffeur and a laundress. LIKES SOUTHERN COOKING Mrs. Roosevelt likes Southern cooking. Miss Quick reveale(}. Fried chicken, hot biscuits ai^d corn bread appear frequently on her table. Cakes are anotheir favorite with ^Irs.^ P. D. R. aqd the former Sanford residei^t bakes a cake about every other day. It was pure chance that she went to work for Mrs. Roose velt, the cook disclosed- She gone to an employment agency in N.nv York City, looking for a part-time, morning job. "^ile discussing job openings, a repre- .sentativc of the agency asked casually,*“How would yon likp to work for Mrs. Roosev^ ? " Recalling the incident, the cook .said she remembers saying that woidd be all right — aO^ then she began to wonder- • “Yon mean Mrs. Frai^in D. Roosevelt?” she asked, and was told that was who it warf. “Oh no,” she replied, ‘‘I couldn’t do that,” Remembering^ the conversa tion, the cook said she thought at that time that work at the Roosevelt household would be “kind of fancy” and that she would not be suiti'd to it. She agreed to try the job, however — and after she got there, she liked it. Three months of her work this past sxmimcr was at Ilyde Park, on thj^iow famous Hud.son Riv- ate that was the late Presi- dg^t’s boyhood home. Since returning to New York "City from Hyde Park, she has (Please turn to Page Six) every day and every week-e until next Fourth of July, wh another “holiday toll” will hi compared on the front pages of newspapers with those of prev ious holidays. Our own North (’arolina ought to be shocked by the fact that in only fourother states in the countr.v did more people die in traffic aucideiits during the Labor Day period this year. Rut is it ? Our legislature, spurred by the insistence of many automo bile owners, repealed this year a measure designed to redupe tj^e hazards of the highway, because e provisions of the law were tdS^rksome. Small fjnea for sef- iousSod Ijfe-endangering vjqla- tion oflk traf!ic law’s, including drunkeindriving, continue to be the prevailing pattern. Persons w hose licenses have been revoked for violations la>ep driving, ai^d in some casp»get their UcpnseQ back, The i^ht to drive is one o( the mo^ indulgently handled rightsvr^CaroHnian
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