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PAGE TWO CAROLIHA TIMES SAYUKDAY. NOV. Ijjth. 1949 BETTER POLICE PROTECTION Thf deoMou of city otficial* to Rtld two more N«fro poliif-mfn to tlie eifrtit already employed is good new* to the Nejffo citi^eiirj’ of Durham, especially of the Hayti sectiou. The move has been needed a long time, and it is our belief that the two additional men will increase the ef ficiency of th^ already employed to the extent that tlu' Fayetteville. Pettigrew and Pine Street sections will be mure closely policetl. Ther« is entirely too much loafing, profanity and other indecencies gt)inpr on on these parti cular «tret-ts, and it itt our hope that as soon as it is possible that the police department will make it hard for those who are determined to livt‘ wuhout honert labor. To cieau up the situation it is going to be necesaary to have police oflScers on foot, as well aa iu puirol cars, 24 hours per di y. in addition they are going to have to depend upon the cooperation of every decent cititen and bttainesa in the Hayti section. The Xegro policemen, assigned to the Hayti section, have done a remarkable jiob with the limited personnel, and they can now do a bettei; one if those who are determined to live outside the law are made to understand that every' de- ufiit liiizen in Durham is atanding solidly be hind their police department in its effort to up hold the law. A CHEAP POLITICAL TRICK? President Truman has oni-e again spoken out for a i-ivil rights proprara. The President said he does nut see “how we can do otherwise than to adopt a civil rights program.” Said the presi dent further, “It is encouraging to see that Americans all o^'er the country ar« growing more and more a vare of the importance of this prob’em.” We have never believed in the sincerity of the pn sideiit about wanting a civil rights bill passed. The verj- fact that his call for such comes at a tinic^when Congress is not in session appears to ns to be purely a political move. Unless the President is going to follow through with an intensive program for the passage of civil rights legislation afte^ Congress has reconvened, it would have been better for him not to mention it at all. On the other hand if the President is sincere, it is going to be hard for him to convince the average Southern Democratic Senators that denjoeracy means equality for Negroes as .well as other people, and that so long as it is not ex tended to them this country cannot continue to maintain its place of world leadership. Con sequently we expect to see another successful filibuster staged in the,Senate with such little men as Hoey of North Carolina and Hill of Alabama leading the fight. Again if the President is siucere we see no rea son why he has to play ball with Southern atates 4 hat are opposed to his civil rights program, since he was not elected with Southern support and consequently is not indebted to it. Air. Tru man can convince a large number of doubters if he will wage an all out battle for passage of the civil rights program. Unless he does so his re cent utterance in behalf of the program will as sume the statu.s of another chwp political trick. RELICJOUS EXTRAVAGANCE The Baptist Council of Durham, consisting of white persons only, conducted a religious census in the Watts Hospital area recently “to deter mine whether the-erection of a Baptist Church in that section of Durham will be attempted. This is in sharp contra.st to the method pursued when the erection of Negro Baptist churches is antifipated here. Instead of a census or sur vey there is usually a split in a church already established wTfh one end of the split going only a fe^v doors away to erect^another iin-needei church building. A recent .split iu one of the well and long established Baptist churches here has resulted in a sei'ond church ^f the same denomination being erected at a cost of $20,000 only a few doors away and right side a Holy Church. Thus we havf in this vicinity within only a stone’s throw of each other three churches jammed al most on top of each other. To eap it all the pastor of the newly erected split end of the Baptist church, after using the present for only two years; has led his flock into the idea of erecting another new building at a cost ol’ $55,000. Alaybe this is religious freedom. W^e think it is religious foblisluiess and religious extrava gance, and ought not to be indulged in by sensible people. Certainly it should not be in dulged in by a group of members whose financial status, from all appearances, will not warrant them being burdened with the responsibility of paying for two church buildings at the total cost of $75,oy within the span of two years. The CAROLINA TIMES feels that it is duty bound to lend its support to all churches. “VVe find it hard, however, to become enthusiastic in a program that is destined to put- unnecessary burdens upon the backs of a group of poor peo ple for no other apparent cause than spite. Negro Baptists in *Durham ought to have a Baptist Council and it slhmld make a survey in the Morehead area to determine if conditions there warrant the expenditure of — for the erection of another church structure. If it does not it should let its findings be known and recommend to the membership that it not pro ceed with its plans to spend such a vast sum for the erection of another church building in an area where it iS not needed. WHY WE FIGHT FOR EQUAL ' EDUCATION The recent series of articles which appeared in The Durham Morning HERALD by Tom Mac- eaughelty on the Durham City Schools discloses some interesting information about attendance in the white and Negro schools. Anyone who has real the articles will be forced to conclude that there are two basic rea sons why attendance in Negro schools lag behind thov- oi the opposite group. First, there is the matter of economies. A close study of poor at tendance in Negro schools will disclose that in nearly everj' case the lack of sufficient funds to provide clothes, food and other necessities often causes children to drop out of school. Another cause is the poor facilities existing in N**pro schools. Where adeqtiate gA-mnasiums, libraries, cafeterias, class room space and other things that go to make school life attractive may tend to keep the white child in school, the lack of them in Negro sehofjls tends to make school life so drear>’ that the Negro child often give up in litter disgust. * So the responsibility of adequate education is not that alone of the parent and the ohjld, hnt of every respectable citizen of the community. It is a responsibility which every thoughtful person ought to be willing to assume, contend for and even go to court. That is what leading Negro citizens of Dur ham had in mind when they insisted before the 'ity Council and the Board of Education that Negro schools be made equal to those provided for white citizens. They know the price of ignorance, and are determined that every pos sible effort shall be exerted to rid the Negro of it. That is why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other or ganizations of the race are continuing to fight for fair employment opportunities, abolishment of the poll tax and other disadvantages that kept the Negro in economic bondage. 'THESE STRINGS MUST NOT BE ATTACHED" Ck Cqrg3UClaug0 Published Every Saturday By The CAROLINA TIMES Publiahing Co. ^ 518 East Pettigrew Street — Durham, N. C. Phones: 5-9873 and J-7871 Member National Negro Press Associatioo ■volume 27—number 46 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949 Entered «f S«c«nd Glut matter at the Post National Adrertinng RepresentatiTe Inter- Offices at Dnrhain, North Carolina tiader the state United Newspapers^ 545 Fifth Avenne, act of March 3, 1879. New York 17, New York. Brahch Office: 5 East Jackson Boulerard, Chicago, 111. lT E. AUSTIN .... Editor and Publisher M. B. HUDSON Business Manager CLATHAN ROSS . . Managing Editor V. L. AUSTIN . City Editor M. C. BURT, JR. Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES; ' ^ Maaths $ 2.00 3 Years $ 9.00 ’ V ■'r $ 3.00 5 Yun . $15.00 Spiritual Insight . • "A PRAYER: FOR ONENESS By KEV. HAROIP ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church #1 “These all continued with one accord in prayer”—Acts 1:14. Since August 6, 1945 men in their fearsome fury hafe been debating about the results of the greatest weapon. It has ated the conncil’s of nations. It huK frightt^ed millions of peo ple. The jikhlful organization of j)hysical energj- is not the great- t'st weapon in the world. There is always wunething greater a- bout the creator than the erea- \lure. The greatest weapon in the worhl is not physical but it is spijifnal. Prayer has been called the greatest power or weapon in the world. The pfffjy ehtireli reeogniml this in its niobili/ation for world conquest under Christ. A little Wid makes ready to march against great odds with one weapon — prayer, the greatest weapon. We need this great weapon for this great hour. Great crises call for great power. In man’s hour of greatest need many seem to have !o^t Uie indispensable are of prayer. We have neglected this means of appropriating the supply of Divine power avail able to UK. In our mad rush for the fleeting and decaying things of this world we don t know how to use the greatest weapon. We need to rediscover and put to use tKis spiritual weapon. We .Jonte to great _ personal crises and we ha\c nothing to fight ihe battle of thV hour. We run away frightened and dt ieaied. We can’t face the so-called “dark night” o! the soul. It ran be yours by tlu* cultivation of the habit of a daily chat with Uotl. Tune in—pause a moment and speak to the Easternal. It uuiy be uttered or unexpressed. It has been rightly called cul- ivating the presence of ^m1. \i times its jut«t a word. Then again ypu may just wait in meditative silence as he speaks words of faith and courage. We ncel to pray as we wrestle and jrrapple witl) the overwhelming problems of this life. Just u few minutes pause and the greatest weapon is yours. P’irst, Prayer is a power that ehanges an enemy into a friend, ours is a world where enemies are easy to nvajie. Its difficult.to make friends in our kind of world. We need prayer for such a transformation not so much for what it do*s to the other fel low but what it does to ntnnber one. Prayer works a change in yon. And by the delicate arid mysterious process of spiritual communication the effects of the change is transmitted to the would be enem}'. This is a law of spiritual dynamics. Thus, the early (Thurch chose the right weapon as it marched otit into a cruel and unfriendly world. A million atomic bopiba c^Qnot make one true friend for a na tion, Ihit prayer will ohange enemies into friends. Paul the persecutor saw Stephens the first soldier to dje in Christ’s arm. Stephen died with a pray er on his lips and Paul never was the same again. A strange thing — he is changed from urreatest enemy to greatest friend. Second, we ought to pray be- l aqse prayer is a healing power. It releases the power of God in the individual. As a weapon it lie’,or It aveii wounds in the souls of luen, A wuunded and bleed ing world needs the healing pow er of prayer. Battered and ex- hatisted by the instruments of violeifct* and blood^ied we n’wi prayer. Prayer is the answer to the soul-siekne.ss of the nations. On a sinking ship during the war a sailor cried out: “Let us confusion we are tempted to say pray hard you guys for this ship is going to blow up” In our the same of our world, The Mas ter’s words are important now “Jfen ought pray and not faint.” Nineteen hundred years rigo a small band knelt in .prt^ver and world for Christ. Ii) the irtiity of arose to go fopth to conquer the their prayers they fashioned for themselves the greatest w’eapon. The world is tired of fighting anl losing battles with the weap on of Vipeijce. Humanity now must be mobilized with the weapon of prayer- Down In Dixie . . . “Winils of fiar” are stirring in the South today. Fear*eati«g at th?' cess-pool minds of Dixie- crats hnd other Ku Kluxers, caused by the growing indignant resentment spreading among the common people. They fear the connnon people m a y again take up the progressive tradition which rightly belongs to them and .the South by heritage. When recently the Mayor of the Uttle town of Sloperton, Oa. challenged the right of the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize the Ne gro and white peopla, when he courageously sprang upon' a bunch of hooded Klansmen and tore the masks away from their faces they sought to parade in the streets of his city, he ex pressed thusly what I mean by this indignant resentment which is causing fear in the hearts of the Dixiecrats and other Wall Street flunkies down in Dixie. The Southerner kluxer likes to creat the impres,sion of a “solid white South.” Solid for lynching, solid against unions, solidly anti-Negro and anti-Jew'. Such events as mentioned in the Paragraph above show this to be imtme now, nor has it ever been true. For contrarj’ to the popular notion the (lommon people of the South do have a progressive tradition. It dates back before the Civil "War when the great mass majority of Southern whites who did not own any slaves became a hot-bed for an ti-slavery sentiment. This was especially true of the Sotithern mountaineers. Throttffh the co operation of such Southerners as the underground railroad operated. For example, the state of Georgia — if not the “Empire State of the South” as is often boasted, ccrtainly a key South ern state — cut her eye teeth on a struggle against slavery. At first Georgia prohibited slaverj’, the only one of the original 13 colonies to do so. But even af ter the slave merchants and oth ers had ovei'come the anti-slav- er>' leaders .and slavery was in troduced, there was still much opposition to slavery in Georgia It led Georgia to be the first state to outlaw the foreign slave trade. Georgia did that ten years before ,the national government outlawed the slave trade — and when it was outlawed^ on a na tional .si'ale it was a Georgia congressman who introduced the bill and led the anti-slavery fight in Congress! Yes, the Southern economic rulers fear the common people may return again to the tradi tion of their fathers. 9MC sac 30C Other Editors Say THEY NEED TO BE TOLD The first speaker to extend greetings at the inauguration of Alpnzo G. Moron as president of Hampton Institute was a repre sentative of the governor of the State of Virginia, selected from the State Department of Edu cation to be the personal and of ficial ambassador of Governor Tuck. During the course of his speech he had several occasions to uae the word “Negro,” which to the embarrassment and chag rin of the large and distinguish ed audience he pronounced “Ni- gra.” ' It may be that the Negro is a little hypersensitive about the pronunciation of the word which designates his race; if 8f> the sensitiveness is understand able. As the speaker went on, possibly under the strain of ne^ousness caused by the sub dued but unmistakable murmur through the audience which ac companied his unorthodox pro nunciation of the word, it sound ed more and more each time like the diminutive which the Negro so strongly resents. It may be true that Americans ordinarily do not stress the “long” sound of the final letter in words like ‘piano,’ but it is equally true that they do not say ‘studia’ for ‘studio’ or ‘g\im- ba’ for gumbo,’ even in the South. And there is no excuse for shortening the long ‘e’ in ‘Negro’ to the equivalet of a short ‘i.’ The Negro knows all these facts, so when the word emerges from the month of a .speaker a ‘Nigra’ the uncomfort able thought that occurs to the hearers is that the speaker is compromising between a forth right ‘Negro’ and the word the Negro regards as a mark of dis- resnect and condescension. Every white q>eal»r before a Browsing Brower V- By FRANK BROWER for UNP A CONFESSION OF WORDS Your lamp am 1 To shine where you shall say; In tho murky twilight gray, Whero wandering sheep have gon« astray. Or where the light of faith grows blue And souls are groping after you. UNDAUNTED TAR HEELS TAKE NEW YORK AND D. c. While special Carolina went hysterical in the Griffith Stadium, Armistice nite with “Oh’s and A’s“ when the Yellow Jackets stung the Eag les, their Paleface brothers were busy in Big Town w here special tletailsof policemen watch ed Grant’s Tomb to prevent North Carolina partisans from draping its with Confederate flags, it was reported before the Tar Heels play the “Frightened Irish” causing them to use their first team for the first time this season. THE FRIGHTENED IRISH got their first jitters when the Carolina pep rally was held in front of Hotel Astor, and Yellow Jackets got their’s when their two squad team came onto the field to withess the North Carolina College four squad §frid machine going thru exercise paces not knowing that the Chocolate Choo Choo “Blue Juice” Taylor was benched with a fractured spine from the Smith tilt We hope the gridsters get some revnue from the Classic for uniforms as we believe the first touch down pass of the Mountaineers could have been knocked down if our man hadn’t been pulling up his breeches aT the time . _ .. CAPITOL CLASJ5IC PARADE.. - Prize ^nntr was Mrs. Lola SoUce of Durhapi Dove Davis, the Howard quoen follQwod by Horh Laoce and his Maniquins in a baby blue djmaflow converted ... Prize material was the Qtiality Muaic Records float which preceded Madam Walker and her Hair Fry process and Service Music of 1217 You Street Sr^roll Gamer floated along with Combo to appear at Benny Cald well’s Club Bali November I5th... COURIER of 702 Florida Avenue in Town and Country loaded with staff _ . . North Carolina College Band leading the parade down Yon Street and dappor Wrat Virginia musicians with black pants and Yellow Jackets with Wost Point headgear and golden taaslt, (sixty in oach b^nd) hrot up the rear Along como fomo' body’s “h#t-rod” r*p of Amoco Senrice — On the ft«14 run 44 North Carolina College gridsters and only 28 Mountalaers. enfillow TO getbe^t :: King (Cole and Dusty “Open The'^Door Richard” Fletcher (see pic) attended. Nat has jumped a Buffalo's town into monied health and he will take his fiddlers three to follow Cab Galloway into the Montmartre in Puba to Inre the tourist trade aeroos the drink accordipg tq Rowe's Boat . . . Toki Johnson is still talking of the hpmespuji philosophy of one of our executives In D. C come win or rain for our gridstefs the town just seems to be Nort|» Carolina^fans even waitresses and bartenders who are always from Hillsboro, Boxboro, W^inston-Salem or Duim MECCA TEMPLE SAVES THE DAY, for us, that is true, as the car was left at the hotel and after the game no taxi was available. A fishtail convertible piloted by Noble Horton drives up to relieve the distress His temple parade earlier with 21 Nobles dressed in green jackets and jred pantaloons nutch* iag tho fezzes I>urham’s idea was stolen from our home* coming as Cfp^tal piajssic of 1965 was riding high in the lineup ... mW West VirgiiUa and the Yellow Jacket fli^t was the best, but Miss North Carolina College, Mable Dupree, a godsend from South ParoUna, was the cutest . _ . QI4 Timers” on the Nefk’s Nook flot went to school with Choke Lww * — FJRE-FLyS I^ TH^ NIGHT was the appearance ef Ow masses smoking in the Sitadium during half-time darkness, and th^ mutli-colored Norfolk Boower T. band lighted up like Christmas trees stole the show with its intricate Three Ring Circus maneuver ing However, the whole act at half time was too long and it was nearly mid-night before the fans wound their waw all over the city to private parties and nite clubs Louis Jordan of the Tympany Five M-Ceed the crowning of Miss Classic with a dowo shaped rhinestoned top peice Twenty-nine fotogs including Sidney and Chaflie and one woman made with the flashes, ob yes white reporters and fotogs were there to report the doings of the more than 30,000 fans (only 17,000) attended the National Classic Well known “Two Teeth” Smitty former North Caro-' lina College great was there Gertr^ Taylor, wife of the prof., on the bench rooting for the boys , . . HAMPTON HOMECOMING was a gala affair this ysar in spite of the Morgan drubbing. There was meeting and greet* ings all ovor tho stroots and “Knock On Any Door” and you would find s friend and a Hamptonian FRANK I. BROWER 5-7781 or J-8811 Logan Building *‘Pudding Head” Jones is a prosperous grocer in BerUoy these days Bob Anderson is a six months daddy .. Adios Amigos — . Negro audience should bi^ warn ed and briefed before hand* on this matter. If he means well he will be willing to make a real ef fort to comply with what is ex pected of him in the pronuncia tion of the word. Because of habit he may make a slip, but a hint from the audience will bring it back to his mind. If he persists in the mongrelized pro- nnciation, it is pretty good evi dence that he Is not prepared to speak before Negro audiences. Somebody needs to tell them. If they have the right attitude and are approached tactfully they will accept the caution gratefully. Tf the reaction is otherwise they should be dis couraged from appearing before Negro audiences.-^arolinian. UNFORTUNATE It is very unfortunate that there had to be a public demon stration and so-called strike at Washington High School over something no more basic than whether should be a dance after the Homecoming football game. Without assessing the blame the case, and in the absence of a full knowledge of the circuna- stances, the Carolinian is still sure that tlie matter involved could and should have been set tled on a basis satisfactory to all parties concerned short of a pa rade up Fayetteville Street by part of the student body, and uncomplimentary pictures and front-page stories in the daily press. We hope that there will be no real or imagined occasion for such a public airing of such grievances on the part of the students, or ns in this case, some of them, in the future.
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