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THE CARQUWA THUtt SATURDAY. MARCH 25, 1950 Judge Bolin's Disservice Judtte Jnui‘ B. Buliu of tile l>umeitUc K«U- tions t’ourt of Ne-w York has done the Negro in thin ouunt.v a by her ap parent uuwarraut4Hl attack on the National AsscKiation for the Ad\'8npenu»nt of Colored Pmple. Her letter of re»i(;iiatiou, addressed to Pn'wdeut Arthur B. Spriugam, copies of which were releas'd to the press 8e%*eral daj-s before the original was received by the NAACP head, tloes not convince us that there is not a selfish motive behind this apparent erratic action of line whose very profession demands restraint, wild rcwrveil teiiiperaniciit. iludpe Bolin's action, if taken seriously, would jilay into the haiuls of the eni'iiiy and to tlie detriment of every Nepro in the United States. It i^ probably just what the doctor ordered ko far as the untra-et>ns‘rvative forces in this coun- Iry ar*‘ concerned. The judge, if allowed to have her way. would tear down the NAA('P without having anything better to put in its place, Although a lawyer of no mean ability, the jndjfe has faihnl to make out a ease against tlie NAACP that will stanil up before the bar of public opinion. She probably used more of lier female temperament than her legai training in the action she took. The NAACP is not all any of us would like for it to be, and what organization or indivi dual is. One thing is certain, the large gains made by Negroes in this country, including even the post held by Jud(?e Bolin, can, 1> a large extent, be attributed to the efforts ol tiiis one organization that is ever on the alert to champion the caus« of the \>gro in thi.s country. Judge Bolin probably needs a vacation or two or three bottles of L.vdia E. Piiikhanis vegetable compound. 'Another War; And What Will Be The Negroes Shore' le Negroes In The Textile Industry Announeement in the daily press this week that a textile mill iu the deep South, Brewton, Alabama, is employing Negroes with great satis faction to the management, is a plea.sant revel ation to this newspaper. The effort ought to l)e encouraged as sueh will go a long way toward raising the eeononiie level of the white-Sonth as well as the many destitute Negroes in this particular area. Horace lv*'vy, owner of the mill, states that employing Xegr(x*s in the textile industry is part of the “New South” formula. “The sooner we find a way to put the Negro to work in our factories, the better off the South will be,” says Mr. Le^'y who is originaly’ from Stroudsburg, Pa. The industrialist says further that the Ne gro is “a() per cent of our buying power down here. We’ve got to give them something to biiy with.” ) Here is a simple statement of down-to-eartb economics. It is the kind the Carolina Times has been preaching to the South for over a quarter of a century. There is no way possible under the sun for us here in the South to build a sound economy for the whole with part of the population underpaid for its labor. Make it possible for the Negro to buy clothe.s, shoes, homes, education and other necessities and he will do his part in helping to raise the economic level of us all. The South is awakening slowly but surely to the fact that all of the people, both black and white, nnist hang tobether or hang separately with the noose around our necks being pulled tighter and tighter by Wall Street that doesn’t care a whiff whether the necks being squeezed are blacR or white. What is being done in Brewton, Alabama, can be duplicated in other southern districts if our white folks in this area will only have the cour age to unshackle themselves and make the start. In so doing they will not have to worry about the loyalty or the Americanism of this new and almost unlimited source of labor. If they will pay him respectable wages and make their working conditions pleasant, the Negro will shoulder his part of the tax and civic respon sibility the same as any other group. Progress In The Right Direction The CAROLINA TIMES is of the opinion that a serious effort is now being made by the North Carolina Board of Elections to see to it that qualified Xegroes are given the right to vote in this State. This is a gool sign and shows progress in the right direction. The registrars who want to do the right thing will have back of them the support of Governor Scott and the progres.sive white newspapers of the entire State. In support of the effort now being made to give Negroes in this State the right to register and vote, the Durham Morning Herald had the following to say in an editorial last Tuesday morning, March 21: In stating the qualifications for registering and voting in North Carolina, the State Con stitution does not mention color. Yet it is a fact, as Governor Scott has said, that many Negrc>es have been refused the right to register in North Carolina. The reason gen erally advanced by the registrar is that they have not satisfied the Constitutional require ment that registrants nnist be able “to read and write any section of the Constitution iu the Eng lish language.” it is probable that a Negro with the finest possible educational background could not satisfy some registrars on this reijuirement. The .restriction has generali.v been one of color rather than education. How many white people reading this editorial have ever l>een asked to take this test? Governor Scott has said that discrimination against Negroes in registering seems to occur in isolated areas. And certainly instances of this di.scrimiuation in North Carolina are le.ss fre quent than in many other States. Yet this does not excuse those guilty' of such discrimination, nor does it excuse North Carolina. A person should not be denied the right to vote because of his color. The State Constitution grants that a person should not be so denied the right to register and vote. Governor Scott’s interest in this mattt*r may bring improvement. The State Board of p]lec- tions has announced that definite instructions on this point have been incorporated in new in structions to regi.strars. Registrars, say these in structions, “should not act arbitrarily in giving the educational test for registration.” This is putting it mildly. The test, where it is necessary to administer it, should be administer ed impartially. And if we continue to have such eases of discrimination, we are going to have to dig deeper to put an end to.it. The educational qualification jiuts too pinch power in the hands of the individual registrar. ' i The question now is whether that power is to be used impartially and with some consistency or whether it is to be used to deny the vote one class or race and give it to another. If the question cannot be settled by' the individual registrar, it niu.st be settled by^ a basic change in regi.stration procedure that would take this pow er out of the hands of the registrars.' II Spiritual Insight . THIS BATTLEFIELD' By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church “And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed.”— Matt. 26: 39. Life’s great battles are fought in tlie souls of men. This scene is a elimax of the growing dif- fieulti('s facing -lesus. Getlise- mane is the red h-ot battle field where the agonizing issue is finally settled. ~\Vliat is life but a red hot bat tlefield f o r tlio.se dedicat ed to trutli and righteous- ne.ss. A decis ion for God means battle. 'I’hiis Getlise- mane is just common bat- Rev. Roland tleground for all true (iod-pt).'^scss‘d humans. Take (iod and Christ seriously and soon you will come to your Getliseiuaiie. Here the inwawl warfare of the soul is fought out on l)cndiug knees. Here one luunbies himself in the presence of God. Stunned and staggered by the blows of life we go down ill weakiie.ss and rise in power. Here we pause or retreat for spiritual refreshment. In Gethse- inan we find strength to endure. On this battlefield we find eourag‘ to face life. Here through ]>rayer we put on the whole arinonr of (Jod. And we can say in life’s hottest battles: I did not run away. To bear your (’ross you must know the power of Gt'thsemane. Ileyond flu* warmth of true fel- iowship in the uj)p(>r room Jesus pau.ses in the darkness of the iiiuaiiglit liour in Gethsetnane. iic steps aside from the rugged patli that leads to Calvary. He st»ps in Gethsemane to fight a l>attie—au inward battle of the- soul. Have you ever faced a de cision of right and wrong, standing by a friend in time of trouble when everybody has de- serteil'! If so, then you have been I in Gethsemane. It’s a place to I strengthen the foundation of a weak and wavering faith. We get a firm pjrip on Gwl’s eternal I promises. We make sure we are 'standing on the rock of an un- sliakable faith. Thus .’ton paus‘ in Gethsemane for power to bear your cross. Von need the power of Geth.st?- nian when the storm breaks with jail its frightening fury. As we walk this way of tears,, suffering 'many stormy and explosive ex- I periences may be our lot. Your I friends disappoint you. Your ' home is broken. Sickne.ss strikes. I Grief and sorrow shake the very foundations of your faith. We fall short of our fondest hopes and dreams. We see them broken and shattered at our feet. In (rfth.seniane Jesus inak*s ready' for the heart-rending ordeal of that dark night. He must be ready for his friend turning traitor. He must be ready for his friends leaving him, in the dark, in the hands of his enemies. You need the power of Gethse mane when life’s blinding anl heart-rending experiences strike. Gethsemane means a power greater than anything that can happen to us. Every' mortal crea ture, at some time, finds a need ^for this i)ower. If is f!ie power jwhicli has kepi all of God’s .Great .souls .standing on their jfeet. It hraecs anil .steadies the soul for endurance. It kept ■ Joseph and Mo.ses in the critical I hour of Egypt, it kept Anuis fit Hefliel. Kept Jeremiah for I God with tears in his eyes. Kept I Paul standing for tJod iu the dark confines of a Roman pri.son. I In Gethsennine we find a power jof endurance greater than any thing that can ha)>pen to us. I Life’s gri'atest battles are fought in tiu‘ souls of men. The Muo.st decisive baffles were not j fought at Waterl(M), \'erilun iu>r jiwo Jiiiia. The.se battles wen- jonly the outward e.xpressions of jthe inner struggles of tlie minds .and hearts of men. A great iiuu'r .struggle of the soul of the presi- jdent and his advisers [)reccded jthe outward act of Hiro.shima. jWe fight through to life’s great j decisions pn the half legrounl of . Gefhst'inane. In these great jcritical battles of life our loved jones and frieinls can go but so I far. Then, we must say to wife, I husband, mother and father jwait; waif li(“re while I go to lyonder’s Gefhsi'mane. Waif at the gate of the Garden, I have a ^^lattle to fight. Geth.semane is a red-hot battlefield betwe(‘n the warmth of the Upper Room and the suffering of Calvary. He won the inner struggle of the soul that dark night. Thus Cal vary' was only a vioh'iit, blood\' and dramatic exjn-ession of the deei.sion and baffle of Geth.se- niane. Win the baffle of Gethse mane. The cross will take care 'of itself! The Deep South Speaks... Ck Car^lU C!me0 Published Every Saturday By The CAROLINA TIMES Publishing Co. 518 East Pettigrew Street — Durham, N. C. Phones; 5-9873 and J-7871 Member National Negro Press Association VOLUME 28—NUMBER 12 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1950 Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Offices at Durham, North Carolina under the act of March 3, 1879. National Advertising Representative Inter state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. Branch Office: 5 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111. L. E. AUSTIN .... Editor an4 PublUher CLATHAN ROSS .... Managing Editor M. B. HUDSON Business Manager V. L. AUSTIN City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: # MeatlH $ 2.00 3 Years $ 9.00 WHITE VERSUS BLACK IN AFRICA Seretese and His White Wife Pardon the personal refer ence, but I have felt all my' adult life that for thousands and thousiinds of years prior to the lay my, great grandfather was foreeably landed on American soil, iny ancestors were kings and chiefs in far away Africa, be cause I have never felt inferior to men of other colors; that though there are many who are Jmore envolved than I, ther(j are none who are inately superior to me and 1 have never been able to conceal my feeling, by total satisfaction with my dark brown skin, my crinkly hair and my absolute lack of pre.judice ba.sed on my color. I am ])roiid that I am black I have absolutely' no desire to he whife. I envy no white per son hecausi' of their color. In other words, I am perfectly .sat- sfied with being a black man, having a black skin^ crinky hair and being a Negro. I would not give two cents to be anything else if I could. I feel that there ar> those of my' kind who are not my race or color—those who believe that mankind is one, that the idea of both white and black supremacy is a form of danger- ou.s' insanity'—^a menace to man kind and whereever either is up held degradation, infidelic in justice sits upon the throne and sentences mankiiul to one war after another and down, down down and down to gehena. The king of England and all the lesser lights in the ruling Briti.sh commonwealth who sur vive by holding millions of Afri cans in economic and political slavery aided and abetted by racists are working around the clock with the old South to make sure that we shall soon find our selves engaged in the third chap ter of a total, global and revo lutionary war between the color ed and white peoples of the world with either total annila- tion or marxian commurtistic world government. Last year Seretese Khana, an earne.st young black heir to a ehieftianship in Beehuanaland, South Africa, while a stud(>nt at Oxford in I»ndon, married blond, white Ruth W’^illiams, who was a clerk in an insurance office, because the two-though of different races — were of the same kind, fell in love, had a oneness of spirit and purpose and were impelled to work to level uji and improve conditions in and around Serowe in South Africa. Seretese and Ruth were shun ned b.v the white traders, all other white except two down there, denied admissions to larg er towns. Seretese’s uncle, a rac ist, disapproved of his nephew marrying a whit(‘ woman who woukl sit with Seretese on th‘ throne as queen. He obiously conspired Mith the white Su premacist ruling group—rejin*- sentatives of tlie British Pro tectorate — and caused Great Britian to demaiul that Seretese give uj) his fhroiu' for having married the Moman he loved. He offered to leave it up to his peo ple to decide whether they want ed him to rule over them and abide by theid decision by a ma jority vote. Britain ‘ould not trust that-—so John Hull had alledgedly issued an edict to the effect that Si'retesi* not be pei‘- mitted to return to Africa for five years. R*ports have it that the white ' jiowers that be who went into |A,frica long ago with a bible in one hand and chains and yokes in the other hidden behind th(‘ir ba(*k.s, know' tiuit White Supre macy’ for they must be main tained at all cost t(j the end ,that they may go on living on I the blood, toil and fle.sh of the blacks who di duot know that a blacks who did uoy km,w- that a vyith a white man who stems I from areas where life is built j around fhe philo.sophv of some I men up and so men'and some men up and some men down. No colored inition in the world can tru.st decadent old England (Please turn to Page Seven) Browsing Brower BY FRANK BROWER LEGAL LOVING Like nets or lime twigs, wheresoe’r he goes. He throws his title of barrister on every wench. And woes in language of the pleas and bench. A motion lady I. . . _ DONNE. GOLDBRICKING WITH THE MAILBAG — “As I recall, in a previous writing, you asked something ahcMif Robert Browning’s ancestry. Brown ing was a mulatto and was so described by Frederick J. Furnivall, head of the Brown ing Society in liondon, in Browning So ciety (not Browsing Society) papers of February 28th, 1890. Browning’s father, a West Indian, was so dark that once, when sifting with a group of British solons, he was ordered to go off to one side because of his color a plain cas' of Jim Crow. Please exMise fhe unfortunate briefness of this note. However, I do hope that you will continue tho.se highly informative writings of yours . Sincerely PRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, Hauula Post Office, Oahu,Hawaii ” NO SUPERSNOOPING CENSUS — Ohio’s Rep. Re publican Rep. Clarence Brown charges that the 1950 census is designed to produce “a priceless sucker list for Democratic fund raisers.” He says that the census has turned into “a supersnooping invasion of the American people’s sacred right of privacy.” He knows better than that of course—or he knows nothing about the census— The census is no longer merely the “counting of noses” provided for in the Constitution. It is a comprehensive economic and sociological survey—Until Mr. Brown rose up in wrath about the bureau’s being “tooo snoopy,” agency’s big job had been to limit the number of ques tions it will ask come April—Bureau archives are “top secret.” Not even the President can look at personal re ports. Anyone giving out any information on individual answers to questions is LIABLE TO SEVERE FED ERAL PROSECUTIONS. BRONZE BREVITIES AT REGAL — PINEY BROWN and his sympony of Five Bronzette I'Vanies appeared at the Regal Wednesday with Dolly McCoy, Harry Gibbs, Vida De Soir, Vatilda the torso twister, Brown and Brown, George Allen and his lloust' Rockers, whatever that means Sepia Andy Stanfield of Seton Hall is ready to assume Mel Patton’s crown as’“World’s ifatest human” after winning the Knight’s of Columbus 60-yard dash at the Garden track According to Albert Wiggam, D. Sc., it pays about 10,000 per cent by test and survey to take a course in marriage. Twenty eight divorces out of 1500 as com pared with the present 43 per cent. HISTORY MAKING CONCERT IN DURHAM—Big, about six feet stout, IVORY JOE HUNTER (see pic) was presented by Lath Alston to Durham’s colored and white fans in this town's first Sunday afternoon concert of this kind. Norfley Whitted and Charlie Cash beige and pink local disc jocks respectively, M. Ceed the ceremony in music.' Char lie’s Bop-Tette supported the program and did a good job Mixed perform ing program and^ a nliot- ed listening audience that seem pleasd judging by the applause I. J. H. is one of 14 children born to Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hunter in Port Arthur, Texas October lOth, 1911. From longshoreman in Houston to top musician of the nation is his success story He tried hard at music but nothing clicked until Governor Jimmy Davis, then of Louisiana did a Decca recording of Hunter’s “Love Please Don’t Let Me Down” This tune helped to put Davis in office That gave Ivory Joe (his real birth certificate name) a big kick and this inspiration drove him on . . _ His wife composed Uhe words to “Guess Who” and he wrote the Lyrics, in fact he has written all of his record ed tunes in the past except “Jealous Heart.” He says a song is only a story, and one leads to another . . . Re cently he began to record the ballads of other composers. Observation: His English is bad, but his music is good and sincere. METROPOLITAN DURHAM . . . Durham County has been designated an ' ‘metropolitan ” by the Federal Budget Bureau . . . This means that this area is one of an integrated ecouomic unit (same as Big Town) with a large vwlume of local daily travel and communication between the central city and outlying parts of the area . . . President Truman, and more especially his secretary, Ross, became sissies of Tarhelia aboard the Williamsburg recently, ilost of the human cargo sailed and rode the waves past our state in a horizontal position. The choppy waves ifendwed the decision that the staff will be “landlubbers” or air-lovers henceforc*, period Judge J. Waties Waring and liis All-American wife of Detriot, were iu Washington when the cross was burned in his yard . . . More than a million 99 per cent of the Russians went to the polls la.st Sunday. Maybe we should enact the law that any one not voting will be sent to the Salt Mines of Siberia to do slave labor until next polling time, yuk, yuk. COACH OF THE YEAR AND NATION ??... Mark Cald well mitised the que of his lifel to become an immortal coach ofl the CIAA after newsmen madel a mistake they couldn’t rectifyl in time. Mark was iiamedl “(loach of the Year” by thej various members of the Sports-| writers Association in Wash-i began. At the mid-game period,! ington before the tourney finalsl they were frightened out ofl wits but it w’as too late to change! horses because they were in the! middle of the river. Caldwelll didn’t think to walk over tol Johnny McLendon (see pic) and! say' “Her? Mae, this is yours”! . . . W'hen the score was W. Va. 70 and N.C.C. 74 flashed (Please turn to Page Six) i
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