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CAKOUWA TIMES SATURDAY. OCT. 22nd, 1949 WASTEFUL ECONOMY Rltrvhcw* in this work's iKsue of the CARO LINA TIME18 in publUhotl an •ocoorit of the Budget Bureau’s cnrtailment of the propoaetl gjrmuuiium at North Carolina College At Dur ham. Inatead of the $750,000 appropriated by the legitlatnre for a building that will seat 5,- 000 pertona. the plans have been changed to acoommodate only 3.652 persons or nearly 1500 lesa than originally planned. Thia looks like wasteful wonomy to us, and a lack of the foresight on tlie part of State officials, that has already resulted in the previous erec tion of two gymnasiums at N'orth Carolina Col lege that were outgrown almost before they were completed. There are now approximistely 1300 students at North Carolina College and with the erection of the new men’s dormitory, acconimodating 500, that is now under construction, in all probability the enrollment next year will reach 1700 or approximately 2,000 within two years, and S.OOO within fiw years. Already outside ape«tAtors, who attend athletic events at the present North Carolina College gymnasium, equal if not outnumber the present student body. There is little hope that the number will decrease but instead there is almost sure to be an in- creaae as the college grows and takes its place among the larger institutions of learning in the nation. A Add to thia tI»crowded conditions thut most always exist at tire commencement programs and other public program gatherings in the college auditorium that only seats a little over 900 per sons, and you have a situation that makes it al most mandatory that the State offioinls provide an auditorium or gj’mtorium that will at least take care of the growth of the school for the next 25 years. We therefore, would like to suggest to the Budget Bureau that the original plans of a gymnasium that will seat 5,000 persons, and that could be u«>d as a gymtorium in an emer gency, be afT»roved .so that college officials will not find it necessary within the next five years to again harangue the legislature for funds with which ample auditorium space can be provided at North Carolina College. We think this is far more sensible than cur tailing the plans as originally drawn and ap pears to use to be far more economical than the temporary saving of a few thousand dollara that will result in lessening the present seating cap acity of the building. SENATOR HOEY COMES TO TOWN A large number of Negro citizens and voters in North Carolina will be both surprised and diuppoined to learn of a race baiting speech msde by Senator Clyde R. Ilpey before the United Daughters of the Confederacy here last week. Others, who are acquainted with Senator Hoey’s reputation in his own home town of Shelby, will not be surprised that North Caro lina’s senior senator went out of his way to at tack Negroes and tackle the ea!rs of the U. D. C. It was a typical speech of the old South, the South that is fast expiring and as much out of fashion as Senator Hoey’s swallow-tail coat, long hair, ante-bellum collar and suspicious methods of handling the five-percenters. It proved beyond any doubt that North Carolina has a senator in Washington whose views are too narrow to be dealing with world problems that involve people of all races. Said Senator Hoey, in the course of his speech to the UDC, “n— are not entitled to civil rights and will never get them. There were no n— on the Mayflower.” Then he asked his listeners JOIN THE NAACP The membership drive now being conducted by the Durham branch of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People should have the endorsement and support of every Negro in Durham. Too long has Durham lagged behind with only a token organization of the one organization that is doing so much in the struggle for Negro rights. Durham ought to have a branch of the NA ACP with a memb(;rship of at least 5,000. Such ean be realized if every man and woman here will join himself and urge others to do so. The mere fact that the national office of the NAACP has sent one of its field secretaries here how they would like to. have n—sit beside them in the meeting. He then went on with a long asinine diatribe against Negroes while the ghosts of Tom Heflin, Cole Blease, Herman Talmadge, Furnifold Simmons and others stalked the foom. There was applause aplenty from many of our so-called liberal white folks who pathetically rolicked and reveled in the slime of race baiting that befouled the air. It was the old South with all its hatred, maliciousness and bigotry that is too an^nt for these times of momentous world problems, when our foreign representa tives are trying desperately to sell democracy to a world over a counter that is groaning under a load of communism. Negro voters in North Carolinlk will need to remember Senator Hoey’s speech, if and when he comes up for re-election. They will need to remember that thia is the same man Avhose com mencement speeches at Negro colleges in this state have changed to bitter denunciation of their defenseless people. (A marked copy of this week’s CAROLINA TIMES has been sent to Senator Iloey. to assist in the campaign is evidence that the NAACP wants and needs Durham’s support. It is not enough for Negroes here to benefit becaust* of the struggle the NAACP has waged througli the years for Negro rights, but it is o>ir solemn duty to support the organization both morally and financially. The CAROLINA TIMES hopes that when the drive is over that the local branch will have a membt-rship of at least 5,000. It can be done and it must be clone if the local branch is to maintain the respect it should have in these parts. ' AN FEPC IS NEiDED NOW oppwiiSiort ^ Health To All. BLACK AS ACE OF SPADES /# The editorial is late gettingjwritten, but it must be written that the truth mayTre^^^lared on a verj' pertinenymatter—that of skin color. During his repfirtorial duty of the world series in New York, Jack Horner, the Durham. Mom* iac: Herald sports editor, took occasion to refer to the three Negro players on the Brookljm Dodgers team, but not without insult to a large se^ent of Negro admirers of Jackie Robinson, the Dodgers second baseman, when he spoke of Jackie as being “black as ace of spades.” We don’t think the insult was intentional. We rather think Mr. Horner’s lack of informa tion about Negroes and Negro athletes resulted in his use of the remark. There are many white people in the South who are so astounded when they run into intelligent Negroes that belie their belief and contentions that a white skin is a badge of superiority that they lose their equilibrium. Then again there are others who, because of downright ignorance, on all fronts, get themselves into ridiculous i>ositions by the use of such terms as aunty, uncle, darkey, Sam bo, etc. It so happens that the Durham Morning Her ald sports editor has more or less circumscribed himself to white sports only, in spite of the fact that his newspaper .serves thousands of Negro readers. On many and numerous occasions he has been invited to attend or observe Negro sports events in Durham of national proportion, but, so far as we have been able to discover, he has never put in his appearance. Durham was the first city in the South to play a Negro football team against a white eleven. Durham was among the first cities in the South to do the same in baseball. The North Carolina College has produced and brought to Durham many great Negro athletes, as well as (Please turn to Page Three) Published Every Saturday By The CAROLINA TIHES Publishing Co. 814J4 Fayetterille Street — Durham, N. C. Phones: L-7423 and J-7871 Member National Negro Press Association VOLUME 27—NUMBER 42 SATURDAY, OCT. 22nd, 1949 Eattred ax Second Class matter at the Post Offices At Durham, North Carolina under the act 0f March 3, 1879. . National Advertising Represe;it«tive Inter state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. Branch Office: 5 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111. L. E. AUSTIN .... Editor and Publi^r M. B. HUDSON Business Manager CLATHAN ROSS .... Managing Editor V. L. AUSTIN ....... City Editor M. C. BURT, JR. Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 6 Months I y^r. . $ 2.00 . $ 3.00 3 Yean 5 TauB - . . $ 9.00 . . . $15.00 TUBERCULOSIS AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE Tuberculosis can strike at any age, but it is a greater threat to joung adults in gen eral than to children and old er people. Striking with greatr er frequency during a per son’s most productive years, tuberculosis kills more young people in this country be tween the ages of 15 and 34 than any other disease. Tuberculosis is a conununic- able disease that is easily spread from person to person. A large percentage of people, by the time they become a- dults, have been infected with tuberculosis germs. Of those who have “taken” the germs, tubercle * bacilli, into tteir lungs, the majority do not get tuberculosis. The natural re sistance of their bodies is able to fight the germs adequately and either kill them outright or keep them well under cou- troi so that tuberculosis does not develop. Those who develop active (li.sease are people in whom tubercle bacilli get the “up per iiand.” The resistance of their bodies is either weak or temporarily h)wered and the tulM-rcle bacilli seize the op portunity to do their destruc- live work while defenses are down. Tuberculosis attacks young and old, but it is particularly dangerous in young adult* hood, beginning at adolescence Many doctors believe that the many physiological changes that come about at that time make adolescent boys and girls more stisceptible to tubercu losis than when they are yotihger. It is po.ssible nlso that in- creii.sedscholastic, athletic and 80‘i«l activity, characteristic of this jige, become'a physical .stj-ain on the adolescent, low er his natural resistance to all diseases, and hence make him TiKire vurtierAble tn tnhercu- Idsis. So the building and main taining of natural resistance, through proper rest, diet, and other healthful habits of liv ing, are of special importance to adolescence and young Adulthood. One of the best habits a young persgn cAn form is to get regular phjw- caI check-ups, including chest X-rays, Thus, if tuherciUosis does strike, it will b# found in an eariy ftago, a stAge in which it is easiest to cure, Those' who live healthfully obviously have a better chance againut tuberculosis. Aware of the special threat which tuberculosis is to youth, senior high schools in many of the nation’s communities, in cooperation with local health departments and tuber culosis associations, have chest X-ray surveys among sthdents periodically. Such a policy, helps to keep check on the health of the individual stu dent and aids in maintaining EDITOR’S NOTE: — This column is sponsored, in the interest of better health, by Durham County Tuberculosis and Health Association, Inc. Spiritual Insight #/ // End Of Special Privilege By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church “Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, which oppress the j^ar, which crush the needy . . .”—Amos 4:1. God gave a great insight to a simple, rustic preacher: God does not sanction special pri vilege ba.sed upon oppression and exploitation. It has bt^- come tile battle cry of men everywhere for human de cency. God does not approve of it becau.se it goes counter to and cuts acros.s the grain of the moral law of the uni verse. Amos indicts Israel for violating the moral law. No voice with such a message had been heard in the ancient world. In the civilizations of Egypt, Assyria and Baylon, it was taken for granted that the gods sanctioned poverty for some and riches for oth-^ ers. But Amos in a rare mo-' ment of moral insight declar ed that God was against spe cial privilege based upon ex ploitation. God is against it oecause it degrades man and vciolates his divine nature. Thus Amos says it must end. He declares that the nation which builds on this shaky moral foundation courts dis aster. It becomes a moral can cer in the social fabric if the nation. Let it remain and the swiftness of divine judgment and retribution will bring it to an end. He speaks the truth to S4ve a nation. The na tion in its\moral blindness walked reckl^ly to its down fall. A naton’s permanence does not rest upon special privilege for some. It rests upon the solid foundation of social justice for all. Special pri vilege rooted in oppression and exploitation is a moral t i ni e - b o m b. It will go off hi time to destroy the foun dation and topple the super structure. God says end spe cial privilpge and save the rja- tion. God speaks apew this message to every natiqn. His tory shows that the violation of this moral law has hastened many a nation tQ its downfall. The great empire \|rhich hAs dominAt^d the world for 400 y«Ars is decAying before our very eyes — to build it they oppressed the poor snd crush ed the needy. The mAsses Are on the nurch and their cry is: SpeciAl privilsge based upon oppr«Hdon must go. These things cannot itAnd. Ood does not lie! God in his entenial wisdom has decreed in the moral law that no civilizaton can loni endure based upon speci privilege rooted in exploi' tion and oppression. Then let those who wear the yoke tAke courage. God is on your side. Right may be crucified. Bight may lose some battles. Wrong in its blind arrogance may sit upon the throne. But God, the moral governor of the uni verse, will give the victory to right and human decency. sei be ita- T?, ■■■ " Other Editors Says.. THE TillUMAN SUPREME COURT Just how'much damage Pre*!- ident Truman has done to the Supreme Court by his replace ments of tho.se who have pass ed on will become iiniiieiti^te- ly evident with the return of that body to the bench follow ing tlie summer recess. All informed persons know that during his long sixteen-year tenure, President Itoosevelt had much to do with fashion ing a liberal court group. All of us remember the furore that took place in high places when the President jhortly af ter his elevation to office, sought to increase the meniber- sliip of the court, with the thought in mind he would Ix* able to change the social, (>o- litical and economic climate of that high tribunal. ^ Roosevelt was unable to get his first legislation enacted. His enemies called his enlarge ment proposal the “court- packing” bill, but death dur ing that eventful sixteen-year period he served as president, gave the man from Hyde Park ample opportunity to do that which he had in mind, in a way no one could argue was not constitutional. Much of the New Deal of his administrA- tion was given the underpin ning and constitutional sanc tion by the Roosevelt supreme court. But totlay, with the recon vening of the Supreme Court, many of the itoosevelt ap pointees have passed on. One by one the leaves are falling. The storm signals are up. Those who sit on the anxious seat wonder Avhat will be the attitude of Chief Justice Vinson, Justice Clark and Justice Minton, who today re place the great Ijberals of the Roosevelt periotl. Just A glance at the calendar of the court reveals these new members must at this term face some momentous com plaints coming from minority groups. In the Mritch hunt that has been going on since World War II a large num ber of men have been jailed and fined for failure to re spond freely to questions ask ed them Al^ut their political affiliations. A number of movie writers have been pen alized for unwillingness and refusal to answer quntions respecting their alleged Com munist affiliation, and the high court is going to run head-on into the question of political freedom. In addition to this, Eugene Dennis, secretary of the Com- victed for contempt for fail- lure to give proper recogni tion to a subpoena coming from the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The opinion of the court must travel down the same path as in the case of the Hollywood actors. The same basic issues that jutted out in the Alien ajid Sedition I^aw? back jn the days of Thomas Jefferson will have to be ^iven treatment by the newly organized court. The Court n^ust also rule on certain features of th^ XAft- Hartley Iaw. This stA.ut* pro vides for A noB-communtrt Af- fidAVit thAt must be sigSAd by union officisls. This hM beeii brought to the Attention of the court, and while the Ap peal of the twelve Communist* now on trial in Foley Square, New York, will not come up at this term of court, it is un doubtedly on its way ttMK. The right of CommuKiiai t6 evist AS A politicAl pArty in the United ^atss, tad whe ther or not the cAse now triAl has disclosed Coausun- ism seeks political ehaages through physicAl fort* Aad violence ^11 be At issue. Oklahoma and TeJCAs Neg roes have casea to be studied during tiic present term hav ing to do with educAtional equality and especially in the Oklahoma caao in the question raised juj to whether sefrwa- tion is not discrimination. 'Ric court in all of its cases hither to has by-passed this issue, but in the Mcljaurin ess® the Oklahoma Conference of Hranches, NAACP, brings this issue squarely to the At tention of this high judieial body. The whole issue of whe. ther or not the recent Okla* homa legislature was com. pletely responsive to ihe in terpretation of the e(MUititu- tion as laid down in the Sipuel case will be reviewed. Some interesting angles, nev er before called to the Atten tion of the court respecting segregation., will be found in the McLaurin brief. A special three-judge tribunal at Okla homa City decided earlier in the year that the seating ar rangements at Oklahoma Uni versity did not whittle awAy any of the rights of MpLanr- in. In BAltimore, a N^r^ l|u raised the question c^cera- ing the jim crow caxtAii|^'& dining cArs oi^ railroA^il Al^d the difficulties exp^ei^q under segr^Ation tg eUting Accfoimmodatigitc, a^4 from CAlifgnm another question ri8pict49| the rights of Nsgrfsy t9 picket an establishmmt in th# the section of the city they live in largo nmhtn, but cannot secur« tmploy* ment. As we said recently in thi« column, no one ean tell Jnst what meaning there is to the Truman appointees until the court convenes and taeUes these vexing and di£Scolt problems having to do with minorities. The true measure of President Truman can be gotten in the next few mon ths. All of us realize and know that the late President Roose velt secured his underpinning for the New Deal through the various interpretation of the constitution he secured through the supreme court. The Truman supreme couft can make or break the man Fair Deal, just oa the Roosevelt court possessed the same power respectiM the New Deal. — O^ATOMA BLACK DISP^TCg. NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS TO MEET IN ASHEVILLE RACE BIAS ENEMY TO BUSINESS NEW YORK Employment of Negroes in jobs utilizing their highest skills would add more than a billion dollars to the purchasing pow er of the people of the United States. This is the opinion of John E. O’Gara, vice president) and general manager of Macy’s Department .store. New Yoric, in an address before the American Management Associations’ three day/^r,sonnel conference in-the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel this week. Scoring employment dis crimination Against qualified Negroes, he pointed out that such a practice nude employ er “criminAlly responsible for providing a soft spot for subersive penetration.” ' "Ejponomic discrimination,” he declared, “means that the Negro can’t stand on his own feet and, when he can’t do that, then he automatically must lean on the community. When he leans on the community, ease— which of course spreads witliin the whole community, and he is shut off from markets because obviously he can’t buy. The lack of a billion dollar purchasing power because of discrimination was a conser> vative he emphasized, and said we should not chase after expensive foreign markets with such a no-cost, big one right on our doorsteps. Prom the point of view of the economic health of the com munity,” he added, “there is in pob discrimination, a sifni- ficant damage too little rec- ogniwd. This damage comes di rectly home to roost in the mar kets of our commerce and indus- trv.” CURRENT CALLS FOR END OF BIAS ST. JOSEPH, MO. Cricitizing as “inadequate” the recent order of Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray calling for equality of opportunity in the training of Negro GI’s, Gloster B. Current, director of branches of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, told the Miss ouri State Conference of NA ACP branches that “admittedly ■the army intends to continue the practice of segregating Ne gro troops” and called upon President Truman “to take the necessary steps to set aside the program of the Army and insti tute a program consonant with RALEIGH Program for the 23rd Annual session of the Noi'th Carolina bngress Convention, Novem ber 25-26 was outlined at the Executive committee meeting held at the Bloodworth Street YMCAe in Raleigh, Saturday, October 2. The sessions will be held at Stephens Lee High School as headquarters. Frank A. Toli ver, is Principal of the host school and chairman of the local committee on arrange ments. Mrs. Marian Robinson is co-chairman, and Mrs. Arney Johnson, president of District No. 10 will work with him in mapping out /details for the best convention session held by the Congress. The theme chosen was “Build ing Together for the Child in His Family and His 'Commnn- his own civil rights program.” Mr. Current, in his address last week at an interracial dinner meeting of the state conference, also called for the extension of the franchise throughout the South ‘‘with out qualification or restric tions and payment of poll tax,” passage of federal and state FEPC laws, and com plete elimination of racial segr^Ation in educAtion, re- creAtion, travel, And all other phAses of AmericAn life. ity,” B. P. Ferguson, PresidsQtl will preside over the sessions assisted by the vice presidents. This is election year and Mrs. M, L. Turner was appointed chairman of nominating eom- mittee^. Plans were also made for in* tensive Membership Drives during* October in OACh 1o«a1 unit and the slating of dis trict conferences in the etoren areas. Members attending the meet ing included: B. F. Ferguson, Mrs. H. S. Davis, Vice-Presi dent, Oxford; Mrs. E. B. Cheek, Raleigh, Historian; N. A. Mc- I.iean, Bricks, Parlimentarian; Miss Willie Mae Jeffries, Rich Square, Recording Secretary; Mrs. M. L. Turner, Treasurer, Warsaw; Mrs. Virginia Hart, Ahoskie and Mrs. Hattie Bioyals, Committee members at large, q The following district presi dents and standing committee chairmen were also present. Rev. W. E. Turner, District 4, Fayetteville; Prof. J. M. Broadhurst, Jacksonville, DiS-' trist 5; Ml’S. C. E. Dear; Mrs. E.: Carter Smith, Monroe, Dis trict 8, Mrs. Amey Johnson, Arfie- ville, District 10; Mrs, Mary Holliday, Chairman, Safety; StatesvUe; Mrs. L. B. Tsnoey, Henderson, P.-T. A. Childrvn’f Camp, Mrs. D. M. jAmsgin, Executive Secretary.
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