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PAGE TWO THE CAROLIHA TIMES SATURDAY, APRIL IS. 1950 A CHALLENGE TO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH li tu u» Uiat llie spurU world is far :,V,i ad -f th: ('hristian i’hur«‘h whvn it conjes to prat'tii'iufT ilif F'.tilitrliiMMJ of (Jo«l and the bro th rliU Hl iii mail. Ev-‘ii here in the South the bniliMi ks u v t^recation in sporta give way quieker than the white ; hureh does in woT- sJiippinR God. Last Sunday thi Briniklyn Dodffers' "B” (Hub ^tlavt'd in the Kaleich League Park (Devereaux Mea«low'i with DaJi Bankhead, one of BrtM)klyn'H Xfgro pitfhers iloing most of the tosising' for the Dodp'rs airainst the Haleifrh Capitols of the ; an»lina 1/eapne, Uen*tofore, Devereaux Meadow has Ihcii si'frn'jrated that park oflieials have evrii n fn>-il tu jtermit Ne^rro 'nllepe football f^■nlll^ l«t play a Tiianksiriviuff day elassie there. Bjiiiklifad i'' ]ir(iliably the first of hia race to piirtifipate in' a spurts event in IVvereanx Miadinx. sinct tlw park was built. He is eer fainly f}i; fir‘it to pif. li apnin.st a wliite team in th.!t park. Wiiile thi Dodger's B Team was making his tory in Italeigh the Dotlgers nmin team was making more history iu Atlanta, Georgia where Don Nl-weombe, another Negro pitcher of the Brooklyn team, saw tJie game in Atlanta, while a much smaller crowd of ^\hite and Negro fans siiw the t'iunc in llfilcigh. LeM« than five years ago when a white football t*'am was mutelu*d against a Ne^ro t«'aiu here, it almost iaus« d heart iailnre to n-. reation and i-ity oflieials many of whom predicted that the ganie would end in a raee riot. '1 o their dis appointment, the i-ontfst WHH one of the eleanest sports events ever held here wijh players and fans of lM)th raees exhibiting the hi^rhest brand of sporfsmniiship. .Ml this just jfues to show how last lime is movin*r and that styrtualion, lacc haln-d and dim’rimination an* fin the \vay out. What yester day seemd a monstrosity is today oni.v a i)a.ssing event It ojdy takes men of eonrai-'e like Hraneh Riekey of the D(Mlgers to start the hall rolling for us to learn that we have be n all wi’t about mueh of this raee stuff. The sp(»rts world flini/s a brntal eliallen^'e in the faee of the white Christian elnii-eh that as an institution eannot find enoufrh 1’atliei hool of OrMl iind brotherlHMid of man to eviMi exelianjre pulpits oeca.sionidly. to say nothin)' cf ineluditig N'egroes as j)astors and UM'tnbers, The Christian eliureh needs a Branch JUekey with more than lip service to launch (»ut in the direction of tii(‘ sports worlti where men are acceptel for their worth ainl not aeeortlinjr to the color of tlieir .skin. Spiritual Insight . . By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church "Christianity And Dommumism" CRIME ON OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES Last week the general public was treated to the awful realizatiou that crime, involving two murders and a suicide, had invaded two of tiie campuses of our white educational iustitutiuns. These, plus other brutal murders tliat have happened ou the campuses of other white col leges make us wonder just how lony before such may strike iu one of our Negro colleges. While all of tlie tacts are not yet knowu iu the University of North Carolina murder and suicide case to determine just what was behind it, the facts iu the Wake Forest ease have been well aired iu a State court to the extent that it is known that liquor and gambling were at the root of the Hair murder. We are going to risk again being “cussed and discussed' ’ by a small shortsighted group of our readers, as being out-of-date or too old fashioned, to do our duty as a moulder of opinion in our corner of the earth. We are willing to “take the shame and the poverty that belong to truth speaking,” to warn our so-called smart young modern college professors and students that they eannot drink, drink, drink and gamble, gamble, /amble without eventually reajiing the harvest, that goes with these evils. We are not goin^' to wait until some stark tragedy has invaded one of our Negro college eampus»*s to pull out the cryiiijr towel aiul shed cro!odile tears over a iiiunh*!', suicide Or sex crime that mif^ht have been prevevnted hud some one had the courage to ery out iigainst evils that oft^Mi lead to them. We are willing to j?o to ('ov- entry and “let the populace bestow upon us their coldest contempt. ” This so-ealled fre(‘dom that is being demand ed and granted on our college campu.s‘s is not freedom, it is bedlam. No man is entitled to free dom who cannot enslave himself to the extent that he can restrain himself i^'ainst doing in jury to a fellow human being. We think it would have been much wiser to have invoked hard and fast rules against gamb ling and drinking on students like Baymond Hair, and Roy Coble, than to alloAV them this 80-ealled freedom that has cost Hair his real freedom and his friend his life. 8o we call upon Negro eollejre administrators everywhere to elamp down on what some refer to as fredom on our eollc'fre campuses and teach, admonish and restrain our youu}r pectjMe until they acquire eiioupjh wisdom to do it tlu'inselves. THE WATTS-LINCOLN BOND ISSUE On yaturday, April 22, the voters of Durham County will be called upon to make an import ant decision pertaining to Watts and Lincoln Hosiiitals. So imi)0rtant is the matter that all progressive and foresighted citizens are much eoncerued le.st too little intei'est be exercised a- mong those who wish to see Durham have ade quate hospital facilities, and the bond issue that would provide them is defeatd. We find it hard to believe tliat any citizen of sound judgement would oppose any worth while effort to provide Durham with hospital facilities that are so badly needed here. How ever, for fear that there might be lurking in the minds of some Avho are not acquainted with the facts, we quote herewith some of the facts from information obtained at the headquarters of the Watts-Lineoln Hospital Centers. DURHAM COUNTY is faced with a dual hospital crisis. Watts and Lincoln are trying to do a 1950 job with 1925 tools, and it can’t be done^the public is the sufferer. There is a shortage of beds ^ Special facilities such as operating rooms. X-ray, laboratories and delivery rooms are is almost as high. Indeed, without the as- Utilities such as plumbing, wiring, and heating are overtaxed and worn out. The crisis is of intimate, real purport to the people of Durham County. Ninety-three per cent of Watts patients in 1949 originat ed in Durham County. Lincoln’s percentage almost as high. Indeed, without the assis- sistance of Duke Hospital, 15% of whose pa tients are from Durham, the Watts and Lin coln problem would be CASTASTROPHIC! There has been a tremendous growth of use of these local institutions. This is how 1949 compared with 1930 during which Dur ham County’s population increased 41%: Watts Lincoln Patients treated Up 192 % Up 66 % Births - Up 440 Up 306 Laboratory Exam. . Up 530 Up 400 Major Operations Up 160 Up 185 X-ray films Up 1061 Up 584 Out-patient visits Up 350 Up 530 Lincoln’s number of beds shrunk from 110 to 90 during this period when the hos pital was forced to use the space for other purposes. Watts added a seven bed isolation ward and enlarged its X-ray department in 1934v Lincoln has attempted to ease the situa tion by reducing average length of stay of patients from 15.0 to 9.4 days. Duke helped with an allocation of 73 beds for Negroes. Watts reduced its average patient’s stay from 10.8 to 7.5 days, and set up 37 tem porary beds in connecting corridors, aisles of wards and doubling-up use of private rooms designed for one bed. Several times recently, 293 patients were in Watts at the midnight census. PROBLEM MORE COMPLICATED THAN JUST BED SHORTAGE More beds are needed, yes, but equally im portant and even more costly is the need for much new or improved facilities to serve (Plea.se turn to Page Three) “Neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things in common.”—Acts 4:32. (’ommuiiisin i)”esentH the great challengt*, ut this hour, in the nation and in the world. It is dramatized in press and in the coiirt.s of the land. It stands at the heart of tlie world struggle for power. A trial is just com pleted (Ml the Wi'st Coast. The higri‘st scene was the Rev. Roland trial of the eleven euuf‘“ss*‘d Communists. Others have been tried as Coui- luunistic spies. The whole nation is plungel into au unreji-stiniug state of emotional hysteria. It is labcletl as a threat to the iia- tion. Tiie issiu^ has been hifrh- lighted by trials and war in Europe and Asia. What is this socalled threat of Communism? What is this thing which is captivating missions — causing men to turn traitors to their coun tries? Is there any truth in it or is it a complete lie? What is this idea splitting the world into two hostile camps? What is this ideal which threatens the peace of the world? In the paHSJige from ActH we have a very simple definition of (*ommunisni taken from the .N'ew Testament. From the Bible! The Book of Acts tells of a Communistic experiment in early Christian Church, ^ere w« see a very small group in an unfriendly world facing many powerful enemies. They had to unite to survive. Most ly. they were ordinary people of ordinary means. They were threatened hijy Judaism and the Roman government. A common spiritual fellowship put their common resources into a common treasury. Thus we have communistic experi- means of simple survival in a mean of simple survival in a hostile world. There is a dif ference in this early experi ment and Communism as practiced in Russia. What is the difference? In the early church it was voluntary, root ed in love and true fellowship. Here we had no force. It was carried out without destroying individual freedom. The Holy Spirit was the driving force. God was at the center. It sprang from the soil of Reli- j^on. Whereas, the Russian sjrstem is a dictatorship deny ing religion and individual freedom. It is rooted in mater ial and maintained by force. The following are some of the characteristics of eonitcmporary Russian Comniunisni. As prac ticed it shows tht'se domiiiat tendencies: (1) It is auti-reli- •fious and tiolless; (2) it de nies es.sential moral aiul ethical values of the dudeaic-Christian traditimi; (3) it denies indi vidual liberty; (4) Its a one Yes! Here is the definition |party system for it admits no as found in the Bible; ,, , “They had all things in eonimon . , It is a system of eeonomien or government where all re«ourees are held in common for the gen eral welfare. U it that simple— yes and no? In Ameriea we have free enterprine or private con trol. In liuHsia they have t*ol- leetivism or public control, I{u.s.sia has been under fhlji nys- tem for thirty-three years. rivals; (5) It claims to be a crusjui'er against injustice, op pression and st'gregation ^ ((i) They offer security in exchange for personal freedom; (7) its adherents have a passionate missionary zeal for world I'on- (piest. Theiiie are a few of the characteristics. In brief it is a ruthless, materialistic and God less ideal of .weial, {lolitieal and (‘(■(Mioinic organization. It aji- peals to the ma.s.s»“s with its messajfe of jutsice anl st'curity for all mankind. Honest Christian leadership must take notice of growing world Communism, Let us not fool ourselves. We are con fronted with a great idea which is winning the allegi ance of men throughout the world — They are found in every country. We must face stark fact that every man won to Communism may be lost to Christ. How shall we meet this challenge? This passionate idea cannot be defeated with machines and. dollars. We spent billions in China aria lost it. Men are crying for something that machines and dollars cannot satisfy nor supply. There is a deep emo tional and spiritual hunger. Their missionaries preach a doctrine of equality and jus tice for all mankind. Whether they can give this is not the question. This is vAat they preach. There is but i^e way to defeat a great passionate idea; and that is with a more powerful idea. The Church is the custodian of this great ideal. But we have been sleep. The Communists have stolen our thunder. We must wake up! The hour is growing late! Now th(‘ ('hristian forces must seize the initiative and bi'come the pa.ssionate champions of a world fellowship free from lui man indignity, segregation and injustice. The human spirit cries out for a new order l)a.st“d upon thest! ))rinciples. Men will not be denied. They are weary with their bunlens. They seek a ile- livi'rer. Will it be Christ or com munism ? We have the answer. The hour is late. If we don’t win the hearts of men with our mess age of love, brotherhood, justice and human dignity, the Com munists will. The is.sue is clear The battle is draAvn. Christ must become a living reality toueh- iutr and redeeming all life. Browsing Brower BY FRANK BROWER REALLY UNJUST AND NOT TO SEEM Her mind has a soil that’s deep and fertile, Her body fits every bulge of the girdle; But when it comw to voting, She’s always there a-toting Her hubby of prudent counsel.—UNO. TRUMAN IS RIGHT AND CONGRESS IS WET — Thru- out the a(j;ett, since the incept ion of our pre.«ient form of govern ment, it iiHs b Report From Lillian Smith On Killers Of The Dream CkCd 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 15 SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 19^ Entered as Second Class matter at the Post National Advertising Representative Inter- Offices at Durham, North Carolina under the state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, act of March 3, 1879, New York 17, New York. Branch Office: 5 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111. L. E. AUSTIN - . . . Editor and Publisher M. B. HUDSON ..... Business Manager CLATHAIf ROSS . . . . Managing Editor V. L. AUSTIN City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 6 MontlM .^-1 2.00 3 Years $ 9.00 I Yw $ 3.00 5 Tears $15.00 ^ (In reply to hundreds of let ters which canont be indi vidually answered now.) No—in answer to numerous queries—the Klan has not burn ed my home down. And people still “speak to me” in Clayton. Heal friends are always friends; the others don’t oount. Yes— in ~^eply to the .second • luestion— 1 iveeive my share of threatening, obscene, anonymous letters. But they have only nuisance value. One cannot take them loo seriously, except to wish that we had a healthier culture and fewer jieople so con fused and unhap|)y. (A {ilea.saiit note; The libra rian in my home town of Clay ton reports that the waiting list for Killers of the Dream is so long it w ill be a year before all can read who have a.sked for it.) As for reviews: S(nithern re views, with the exception of (Jeorgia, have been fairly go(xl. In the North, the reviews have been more favorable than on Strange Fruit—though in at least half, Killers of the Dream was totally mi.sunderstood and reviewed as a book ou “the Ne gro problem.” But, Atlanta — oh my! The book and its author are bitterly fought there. Not by Talmadge as you might think (at least, no4 yet), but by the conservative groi^), sjiearheaded by Ralph McGill and Jack Tarver, who with Hodding Carter of Mi.s,s- i.ssippi, think of themselves a.s “the voice of the South.” It seems to exeite them when other KOiitherners .say things that de viate from the Leave Us Alone! line. McGill and Tarvi'r—both edi tors of the Constitution — have fought the book with few holds barred. Calling themselves ''molerates” they speak as fol lows: Atlanta Constitution editor ial, February 9,1950: “In last Sunday's issue the New York TIMES proved once agaip that the moderate Southern viewpoint cannot expect a fair hearing in Northern newspapers. The book review section of the TIMES carried a review of Hodding Carter’s new book . . , Who wrote the review? Why,'Lillian Smith, of course, lie ex-missionary who has made a profession of writing stuff that purposely sets out to debase the South, with a fury that continually o’erleaps itself . , . Manipula tion of ‘reviews’ according to the established prejudices of the editors in an unworthy dec()ption by any standard. But Southerners long since have ceased to anticipate jus tice from intolerants. It is disturbing to find Mr. Car ter’s book reviewed by a per son who is, in her fashion, one of the most prejudiced and intolerant persons writing to day.” Here is ^Ir. Tarver’s own “motlerate” review of Killer of the Dream: “Lillian Smith has written a new book and, brother, is it a stinker! It’s not a novel. Nor could you call it nonfiction. It is, in short, neither fish nor fowl, although I must s«y it gives off the aroma of both . . . Talk about your devious demagoguery. Not only is this claptrap but very badly done claptrap. There is one chap ter, or orgasm ...” etc. Here is Mr. Kalph McGill’s column on Killers of the Dream: “A thesis as warped as the Freudian cast with which she covers it. And although the Jung school now regard Freud as passe, he still is heavy stuff to swing about . . . With, the zealot’s zeal and astigmatism, she focuses her psychiatric magnifying glass on the South and comes up with her con clusions, magnified .... A woefully unsound book. Miss Smith is a prisoner in the monastery of her own mind. But rarely does she come out of its gates, and then, appar ently, seeing only wicked things to send her back to her hair shirt and the pouring of ashes on her head and salt in her own psychiatric wounds ” etc. Many of the liberal leaders in the South—wiio eannot be con fused with these (‘onwrvatives— consider the book important and have expres.s'd a Avarm approval of it. Others liav(‘ been silent. This silence has troubled me, fru- I know' they know that the book speaks truly of our South. I can not explain ' it a.s an expression of “cowardice,”'or of “insin- cersity,” as some do so glibly. These are real liberals, and real liberals are not cowardly or dis honest. Perhaps they are hurt; hurt not with me, for I did not call names in my book, but hurt, by their ow u memories. The book is not my biograjihy as a south erner; it is theiiTi also, i think that many know in their hearts that to read it will be like turn ing the yellowed leaves of their own diary. Our past can puui.sh us so painfully when vVe go back to it, , . Knowing thi.s, they liave left it unread; or reading, can not yet talk abou^ it. Of courw'"there are other peo- ])le who are furiously angry that 1 told the “three }jhost stories” —that secret which ‘nice ladies’ are not supposed to know. But the literate, »*ensitive, liberal group are not anjrry about this. Thi*y have too much honesty and humor and savior faire to be caught in such an absurd trap of defensiveness. Though a few men have ex- plotled in wrath about thuj^ ghost stories, hundreds of wo men have written to siiy, “I am •.dad you told it.” But many more and this is ool-—^have written id' their deep eoncern a- hout .s(‘grefation’s effect upon the growth of all childnui, white and Negro. Do women like the book better than men? Yes, 1 think they do. But men like it also. These men—and numerous others—have liked it: JOSHUA LOGAN (A south erner, Of Mr. Roberts and South Pacific fame) wrote: “I have just read Killers of the Dream and I am on fire with the excitement and il lumination of it ... It was as though you had a private win dow somewhere under my shoulder blade where you could look inside of me. I’m sure most Southerners will feel that. What a great thing you have done.” MY YOUNGEST BROTH ER wrote: “Many men will despise it; many more will throw it aside when they be come aware of your reverse strip-tease act of making their souls naked. But some men will cherish it as they cherish vague memories of mother’s teachings of truth. I shall read it again but I wanted to let you know now that thousands of perhaps inarticulate men will think your labors, have borne fruit—not strange, but familiar as every day, and heretofore ignored.” (Plea.s* turn to Page Seven) n the rule that the Lesri.slative Brnneh of the gov- eriiinent has no rif^ht to see secrt^vfiles in the Kxecutive Branch if the hitters discretion dictates that the [)uhlic ifood is better ner\'ed by iion-revelation of the* source of the sub ject matter, as oppos«‘il to the ininctured digiMty of ii pot bellied Congressman who went out on the limb to make the headlines. Of course (’oti!j;ress is like a Christmas fruit cake, neither is no gcXKl without a few nuts. Since w hen are we ^oing t(» challenge the gov- ernniental practices that have weathered the storms in the pastf Since when do we not have a separation of three branches of our government. And, since when will one branch be allowed to indirectly govern the activities of the other, in effect making, construing, and enforcing the law by one hard heail on out* Innly ! This would lie au ultimate result. Marshall agree* 1 that the I’re.Ky shuuhl be sole jud^re of what he lonsidercd confidential. .Icri’ersoii not only ignored Marahall’u order but said that under our framework of government the Judicial branch has no authority to orilcr the Prexy to do any thing , , . Precech'iits established over loO years is tlie American answer Stalin. jiii THE KISS OF DEATH — During the hot campaign for the Senate seat, Smathers, a young Congressman from Miami, Florida, has tried to link Senator Pepper with Communism as have the foes of Dr. Frank in Tarhelia but both Senators seem to have successfully counteracted and denied any sympathy with the Pink Poddy . . . Watched by every newspaper in the nation because of the “Free dom of the Press” clause of our birth certificate, is the trial in Greenwood, South Carolina this week of Editor John McCray of the LIGHTHOUSE AND INFORMER, and A. P. reporter Deling Booth. They face similar indict ments charging “malicious libeling” of the prosecutrix in stories reporting the last interview with Willie Tolbert in the death chamber last year. They are being denied their version of the incident as a reporter. CONCISE CHIT CHAT AND NEWS BITS — Easter guests for attractive Mae Norris Harris, journalist of the Greensboro tabloid and member of its executive staff . . . lioz Eagleson, Hamp ton math prof to Durluuii for the week-end . . . Good music played by a white band (HG) in lialeigh Saturday nite for the joy-lov ing Kappas and their guests after their regional in Durham . . , Excellent leg-shaking of the elder and younger socialtiea at the much praised A. and T. Dance at the Armory Friday nite with forty-’leven after poidie3 thru-out Bull City until breakfast time. Sir Williaju Henry Heckstall, the banker, and tlie feminine beau ties as tlie Easier Dance at the Klks Home in Ahoskie with muaic by the Tick Tocks sponsored by the Four Corner Club iu one of the East’s most exclu.sive Nite Spots . . . YOU MIGHT BE NEXT — Watts-Lincoln Citizen* Hospital Committee . . . Chairman: Bascom Baynes . . »- Vicft-Chairmen: Dr. Hollis Edens, Dr. A. Elder . . . Offices: 518 Pettigrew and 509 W. Chapel Hill . . . Dear Friend: It is most likely that you have already received, full information relative to the Hospital Bond Election which will be held throughout Durham County on April 22. However, knowing that you can be of great help to us by your influence with those whom you may contact, we are enclosing a “Fact Sheet” concerning the posposal with the request that you read it and urge your friends to join you in voting “YES” on the issues at their respec* tive polling places on Election Day ... We feel sure that we will make a creditable showing in this Christian and humanitarian project. W« can only do so, however, with the full cooperation of our leaders and our electoratft With this in view we want the public fully informed and if there are any unanswered questions, please call Mrs, Foreman at 4-5311, Or, if you have knowledge of any meet* ing at which information may be given to a Igroup Mrs. Fore man will be glad to assign a speaker if you call to give her the date and hour ,. . We are grateful for the help you have given us before in other mat- ters and we shall count on your help in this important undertaking—^now and parti* cularly on the twenty-second . . . Sincerely yours—R. N. Harris, For the Committee... OUR HOSPITALS NEED OUR HELP VOTE “YES” ON BOTH QUESTIONS, HOSPITAL BOND ELECTION—SATURDAY, APRIL 22nd, and register for the Primary at the same time. CITIZENS INDICT THE CITY COUNCIL - Prominent citizens report to this department that Dan Bankhead, the sepia ball hurler with the “B” team of the Dodgers which played here last bathday, told them a member of tlie City Council told him he couldn’t play here again.st the Bulls, This in spite of the warm reception he got in Atlanta, Geor^na for his win the day before, and to top it, he played the last (i innings with the team in the Raleigh game the following day. Billy Cox, Preacher Rowe, and Rex Barney told colored fans at the park, “Some town you have here,” Can’t you just see old cotton-topped Stalin sticking out his tongue at Uncle Sam? SEE HASKELL HUDSON: For a free trip to Cali fornia, a ten day sight-seeing trip in L. A. and Hollywood, and $50 toward the $71 fare return to Durham .. . He is shipping to Yokahoma, Japan with his car and wants company to the coast. Have you had a vacation lately, hu-u-h. . . . CONGRATS To the Service Printing Company for turning a hundred percent membership in the recent NAACP drive. If only more business concerns were concerned in our future .... Lnuna Harpett of Allen TJniversity to her Greensboro home for Ea.ster . . . Ea.ster Norfolk guests for Dr. and Mrs, J. M, Hubbard (Please turn to Page Six)
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