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SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1952
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In her column in the Durham Morninq
Herald last Wednesday, June 18, Dorothy
Thompson put her finger directly on a sore
spot when she points out that everywhere
she has traveled in the Middle East, the one
eternal criticism of colored peoples, against
their white rulers is that “they think they
are better than we are.” As a result of this
unsavory attitude these colored peoples are
demanding self-government and self-deter
mination, not because they will have a high
er economic level, but because under the
rule of the white man they have been de
nied that most treasured of all possessions—
human dignity.
Says Miss Thompson in part;
t
"Thus, in Khartoum, I had a conversatlMi
with one of the more fanatic supporters of
complete union with Efypt. He spoke im
peccable Enflish, and owed his entire edu
cation and consequent position to Great
Britain. He spoke, even with noatalfla, of
his years in England, expressinf himself an
admirer of Anglo-Saxon law and British
civUisation. Bnt when I asked, “Why then,
do you want these few Englishmen to leave
Sudan?” he answered, “Because I am an
Arab, and because the British think they
are better than we. In England, where I was
guest, I was invited to dine in British homes.
In the Sudan, whMC the British are our
guests, I have never been admitted into a
British family household.”
SIMILASLY, IN ABADAN, Iran, the great
Anglo-Iranian oil city, lying in the superb
groves of date palms, with neat streets of
stone built houses, gardens, and magnificent
factories, the whole covering square miles
of territory, is absolutely dead. Not a chim
ney was smoking when I was there. The
company -paid the Iranian treasury $50,-
000,000 annual income, and that treasury,
now without the income, must also pay a
million dollars a month (as I recall the
figures) in wages to workers, unemployed,*
or only part-time employed on made-^ork
projects. No one visiting Abadan can believe
tiiat in income, security, and amenities,
Abadan workers were not better off than
the average Iranian peasant or worker.
But I talked with a former employee. “1
am,” he said, “a graduate chemical en
gineer, from a British university—and with
honors, Miss Thompson. I never rose in
this plant above a superior clerical super
visory position—hiring personnel. No Iran
ian, whatever his qualifications, ever was
in a position to give orders to an English
man. And this in our own country! I will
never again fork for the Briish. I’ll starve
first.”
And when I asked, “Bnt weren’t you
actually better off?” he interrupted hotly,
"What has that got to do with It! Does not
the West, itself, perpetually talk about the
dignity of man?”
IN THESE WERE nnnimai responses I
would not quote them. They are absolutely
typical—and also of the attitude of North
Africans toward the French, and of ev
erybody toward Israel.
“They think they are better than we
are. They assume snperiorlty. Bnt super
iority of opportunity, wealth, or power are
all transient.”
These are mere straws growing on the
hillside of the world’s affair but they show
plainly the direction in which the wind is
blowing. They are creeping shadows of
greater events to come.
Here is the basis of all the strife in the
world today. Conceived in the minds of
white men, shaped by their hands, main
tained by their force of arms and chicanery,
this sort of thing cannot, must not go on
forever. Somehow we feel the time for it is
about up.
To bring it closer home—here in Durham
—if yorr please. There are Irandreds, yea
thousands of' Negroes in our factories, in
spite of their long years of service, loyalty
and efficiency, who have never been upgrad
ed or promoted beyond the point of super
vising members of their own race, if at all.
Not only is this true in our industrial plants,
but it also applies to our municipal govern
ment which is so anxious to maintain a
policy of white supremacy that a Negro is
not allowed to drive a garbage truck. Do
they think they are better than we are? If
they think so, are they not contributing to
the unrest among all the colored peoples of
the earth?
We hope it is not later than we think, we
hope that there is yet time for America,
Britain, France, and the oth^ great white
nations of the earth to set their houses in
order. History though points to the Baby
lonians, Grecians, Romans, and in our day
the Germans, who thought they were better
than other people, but would heed no warn
ing to reform.
What time is it?
No Condemnation Without investigation
The slating of a man here early last Sat
urday morning by PoUceman O. C. Johnson,
while regrettable, is one of those incidents
in which the intellect should be allowed to
have control over the emotions before judg
ment is passed on either the officer or ^e
dead man. In cases of this kind, the most
us, out of sympathy for the victim and
his loved ones, have the tendency to con
demn an officer of the law who, in the per
formance of his duty, is forced to take such
drastic steps.
At the time this editorial is written, Tues
day momiiiij, the CAROLINA TIMES has
not been able to complete its investigation,
nor has the Durham County grand jury
made any anouncement as to its findings.
We therefore, will reserve passing judgment
until such time as the facts in the case are
fully kn^mrn. The tendency to condemn
either the officer or the slain man before the
truth is known, we think, is ncrt in keeping
with sound judgment
TUs newspaper has followed th^.careers
of all the Negro police officers of Durham
and offhand we believe them to be very cap
able men. There have been many times
when we have thought that they were too
lenient with certain types of persons who
apparently have no regard for the rights of
others. Therie have been only a few
times when wp fdl that their conduct was
not of such that it would meet the approval
of the best of us.
The hear tragedy which resulted several
months ago when two Negro police officers
came near losing their lives when they,
response to a call, were the targets of a shot
gun blast at the hands of one of these per
sons who have no regards for the rights,
property or lives of others, vividly brings
to our mind the realization that it is neces
sary to: await the outcome of an investiga
tion in such matters before condemning ei
ther party. One of the officers, while not
losing his life, will be an invalid for the re
mainder of his days.
If the investigation discloses that Officer
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THE PRESIDENT ADDRESSING THE JOINT SESSKM OF CONGRESS
Johnson, without provocation, took the life
of a citizen, the CAROLINA TIMES will
condemn his actions to no uncertain degree.
If, however, it discloses that he was merely
carrying out his duty as a police officer we
will, like all good citizens, take our stand be
side that of law and order.
Spiritual Insight
“God’s Levelling Process”
By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
Pa$tor, Mount Gilead Baptist Chitreh
“Every valley shall be exalt
ed and every mountain and
hill shall be made low: erook-
ed made straight, and the
rough places plain . . Isa.
40:4.
The prophet sees God at work
in a world of sin and' evil as
corrective force. He sees God’s
levelling process in the bitter
social struggle between justice
and injustice. In our weakness
we are tempted to become in
patient in this gigantic struggle
with the ruthless forces of evil
and oppression. We are tempt
ed to ask God how long must
the poor and helpless be crushed
and insulted? How long must the
peasant and sharecropper be
fobbed of iiis latxir? How long
must the vast majority of God’s
children stand on the border
line of poverty and starvation?
The prophet reminds us to take
courage amid the great evil
forces for God is at work as a
levelling process.
Our hope, the prophet says, is
that God is at work in history
as a corrective and levelling
power. God is at work straight
ening out things. The struggle
may seem fruitless. It may take
a long time for us weak mortals
to see things. Remember that
God is at work making things
right—raising the valleys, bring
ing down the hills and mountains
making the crooked straight and
smoothing out rough and diffi
cult places. Sometimes we need
the faith of a Daniel in the land
of Babylon: Daniel saw the
mountains of difficulty but he
knew that God was at work on
his side. Wherever we may fight
these great battles we ought to
say with the prophet: MY GOD
IS ABLE TO DELIVER ME.
What are you saying Daniel? I
see God at work raising valleys
and’ bringing down mountains.
The weak may seem helpless
in the face of long-standing,
deep-seated entrenched wrongs
of evil and vicious power. We
saw it in slavery. We saw it in
the long struggle of labor for
decency. Yes, justice in combat
with injustice and qppression
WASHINGTON AND
SMALL BUSINESS
Articles by David Lilienthal,
ex-Tennessee Valley Authority
head, ex-Atomic Energy Com
mission head, attacking the na
tion’i anti-trust laws and busi
ness philosophy, cause some
amusement in Waslilngton.
« * *
It Is recalled that although sp-
poiniedto AECi
for a five year!
term, IiUleo-1
thal resicnedj
after Concres>-|
lonal iBvesU-l
ration whloh|
inclnded'.
public I
and tl
door BCUkHIB.
Due *to* le- Hanl.r
curity, it is doubtful full facts
of these hearings will ever be
made public, but those that were
made public did' not boost the
Lilienthal business abilitiaf.
* • *
Fpr example, the Baaford
Plant, started on an estimated
cost of |6 million actually cost
$25 million. An AEO bnilt lonlor
high school started out to cost
11,786,000 finally wound up cost-
hig 13,980,000.
* • *
Other testimony Indicated
AEC played fast and loose with
security regtdatlons, bypassing
the FBI to grant emergency
clearances at secret plants.
• • •
There were nndoubtedly great
information leaks. Cnnnit Sat
urday Evening Post articles re
port hoW' a British physicist
gave Bussia vital sedrets.
• • •
It Is held significant that Lili
enthal, as the resigned head of
AEC, emerges, despite his lack
of private business experience,
as tom-tom l>eater for destroying
the nation’s anti-trust laws.
* * *
Atom bomlM have captnred
the headlines. Properly so, their
details are gnard^ secrets, bnt
comBiercisl nses of atomic en
ergy in the next few years wiH
@ NttloDtl Vtdfiratloa of Iod«p«Bd*ot Btulntn
By C. WILSON HARDER
result In the greatest develop
ment. since the application of
power to machines.
* • •
Petroleum opened a whole new
field of power. Control of the
world oil supply is new in the
bands of a very few. Atomic
energy has opened a bigger field,
e * •
Hie development of atomic
energy cost the V. S. taxpayers
billions. Tet one or two of the
biggest corporations in the coun
try hav« been permitted in on
the ground floor.
• * *
Hence Washington feeling cur
rent drive to abolish the anti
trust laws ia paving way for a
super-atomic energy monopoly.,.
The effect on the entire eco»
omy of not only the nation, bnt
the world will be vast when
atomic power is used for heat
ing, transportation, and many
ether planned peacetime nses.
* • •
Today, the motorist cannot
shop for gasoline. He finds gas
oline price identical Monopoly
control dt peacetime atomic en
ergy will abo eliminate all com-
I>etition; force on the public non
competitive fixed prices.
• * •
This is one facet of back
ground to scuttle anti-trust laws
tliat prohildt price fixing.
* e *
Furtiier evidence piles up that
there is no limit to degree a
bureau will set Itself up as a
litUe super-govemment ruling
by edict. The latest example is
the Wage Stabilization Board.
* * *
Washington stationery stores
iiave discnssed summer Satur
day olosidg. But first the Wage
BtabHiiation Board must ap
prove, because to work Employ
ees shorter hours at the same
pay is eqnal to a pay increase,
the hnreaucrats argue. It is
liard to reconcile this docile snb-
mission to petty official rulings
by a people who dumped taxed
tea in the hay.
may seem at times to be fight
ing a losing battle. In the dark
hour, without our backs to the
wall, we are tempted to cry out:
WHAT'S THE USE? In such
hours remember God’s promise
cannot fail. Remember you have
his word: . . . “The crooked shall
be made straight, and the rough
places plain. . . ” God will bring
down the unjust. God will raise
the just to their rightful places
of dignity and decency
Fight on: The kingdom of evil
must come down. Let us remem
ber this moral truth as we fight
our battle against the great in
sulting SOCIAL SIN OF SEG
REGATION. This unchristian
and undemocratic thing must go.
This coercive sin with its legal
aanctipn must go. Remember
God’s levelling process is on our
side. If we lose, then the nation
is lost. If we lose, there can be
no peace in the world. Look,
don’t you see God at work blot
ting out tliis sinful insult from
the face of our fair land.
B e courageous! Fight o n
wherever you are embattled
against great odds in the blessed
assurance that God’s levelling
process is on your side. On the
highway to Raleigh the other
day I saw how the Bulldozers
were raising the valleys and
levelling the hills—r-preparing a
better and safer highway. God
is at work making a better and
safer world to live in through
justice and decency.
BY INCH OF CANDLE
By
ROSE BUTLER BROWNE
June 24 is my mother’s birth
day. It makes me happy to sa
lute all mothers. Not all of the
women who have waited until
“the fullness of time” are entitl
ed to be called “mother.” I have
in mind all of the women on
earth who have given mother
love to a child.
Mothers are wonderful — all
of them—real mothers. To me,
my mother was very special. She
is now resting In a green and
shady cemetery in Newport
Rhode Island where she spent
her last days with my sister
Mary. My mother reared seven
children to manhood and wo
manhood — two boys, and five
girls. In all of the years that she
lived and guided us, not once
did she raise her voice above
an ordinary speaking tone. Nev
er in all of our growing up did
we hear our mother quarrel or
bicker—she let us grow up in
peace. She taught us to value
inner peace. 1 have been to
school and college for twenty-
three years, but the most im
portant things I know, the abid
ing things that time does not
change, my mother taught me.
She taught me to wash dishes,
to scrub the floor, to clean silver,
to make beds, to sweep, to iron
shirts (stiff bosom), to cook a
little. She didn’t know how to
cook very well, but she sent
me to a center at Morgan Me
morial in Boston to learn how to
to sew and cook, when I was six
years old.
When I see bewildered pa
rents today, I try to call to mind
what it was my mother did to
keep us in line. Although her
scepter was gentle, she ruled.
She would say, “Rose, there are
ten white shirts in the basket,
I am going to let you iron them."
"Thelma, I believe I’ll let you
wash the floor.” Somehow we
attached privilege to the oppor
tunity to do our work well. Ev
eryone went cheerfully about the
task at hand without a murmur
or a frown, it just wasn’t done
in our house. My brothers were
first born, they had terrific
paper routes while they were
still in grade school, they cover
ed the offices in South Station
ind the Boston and Albany ^11-
.oad Buildings. They would
oring home pockets full of silver
and coppers on collection nights,
and we would all cluster around
.he kitchen table while the
noney was counted and separat
ed into what they had earned
and what was needed to pay for
,he next week’s papers.
My mother never praised us
Jreely. When I made the honor
iociety at Harvard—a woman
and a Negro — I thought my
mother would t>e delighted,
^hen I told her she said, simply
■‘Why not?” I didn’t answer be
cause I too had decided. Why
not?
To all who are concerned with
the problems of adolescent child
ren let me give you an instance
that you may use sometime.
When in turbulent adolescence,
I cried, “I am going to run away
from here and never come back,
we can never go anywhere.” My
mother answered, “Well, you
wash the dishes and wipe up the
kitchen floor and walk, child,
you do not have to run.'' Im
mediately the tension was re
leased and afterward we laugh
ed to ourselves about the rare
judgement of one Frances But
ler.
My mother guided me
through the “Golden Star
Waltz,” Sartorios Stodles for the
Left Hand, and on up to Bach’s
Little Preludes. When she was
in a gay mood she would play
and sing to us of “Captain Jinks
of the horse marines who fed
his horse on corn and beans.”
On Sunday afternoon she would
play hymns while we all sang.
Her favorite was “Bringing in
the Sheaves.’’
Our mother wanted all of us
to be good, useful men and wo
men and she taught us to love
one another. We all get together
at least once a year to renew
our covenant with her. When
we talk things over, we all feel
that she would be content with
what we are trying to do. I am
sure that she sees and knows,
and if she could speak, she
would say, “Why not?”
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR
Route 3, Box 134
Apex, North Carolina
June 10, 1952
Mr. L. E. Austin
Editor of Carolina Times
Durham, North Carolina
Dear Sir:
I have noted with growing
interest numerous editorials ap
pearing in your paper from time
to time, stressing the importance
of Religion in institutions of
higher learning, and satirizing
institutions that have abolished
the idea and practice of compul
sory 'Vesper services, or as you
put it “de-emphasizes Religion.”
I must tell you in all honesty
that I am opposed to compulso
ry 'Vesper services, even though
I'consider it a method of char
acter building. I make this state
ment with at least two reasons
to substatiate it.
1. I hardly think that you will
be able to find in the Bible, any
scripture that says God the Om
nipotent, said men had better
serve him, or better go to
church. But I do think you will
find the quotation “harden not
your hearts,” and not, you had
better not harden your hearts.
Thus, if God gave us the choice
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CALVIN'S DIGEST
By L. BAYNARD WHITNEY
(FOB CALVIN NEWS SEBVICE)
TRUMAN’S ENEMIES
President Truman’s speech at
Howard University should cer
tainly relieve all doubts re
garding his sincerity on the
issue of civil rights, especially
fair ^floym^t pra^CM and
racial integration in the armed
forces. Since he is not a presi
dential candidate in the com
ing election, Truman’s en
emies cannot now accuse him
of playing politics. The Presi
dent said very candidly that he
tends to fight for civil rights,
both in and out of office.
During the last two years Big
Business has deliberately
sought to kill, or at least sty
mie, every element of the Ad
ministration’s Fair Deal pro
gram. They have spent mil
lions of dollars for propaganda
against what they Tru
man's “socialism” and have
beaten Fascist tom-toms to a-
rouse hysterical fear of "com
munism.” The Bonn Adver-
tis^ents are a good example
of the elements in the nation
that are seeking to twi«t the
truth Trmnan has spoken “to
make a trap for fools.”
Truman has taken cognizance
of these unfair and vicioua aip
tacks upon his Administration
by various commercial mono
polies. He said he intends to
find some basis for proaecu-
tion, mainly the anti-truat
laws.
It is significant that these
spurious advertisements are
against something, instead of
being FOR the practice ot
genuine Democracy. How
much better, wiser and more
to the good of America’s moral
health as a leader, it would be,
if the^ same millions were
spent 1) to create understand
ing between the races, 2) to
help break down race and age
barriers in employment' and
3) to help save the country
from the gangster, racketeer
and criminal exploiter.
Such a program would, over
a period of time, create con
structive conditions that would
make it unnecessary to fear
aiiy brand of “ism.”
EABLHAM BOBIANCB
Parents of an interracial
couple that graduated from
the Quaker Fjirlham College
in Richmond, Indiana looked
proudly on as two races were
united in holy matrimony on
the Cornell University campua
recently.
Robert McAUester, 23, white,
had been ordered off Earlham
campus for “daring” to defy
tradition by announcing bla
engagement to a fellow itu-
deht,, ^e lovely and brown
Grac6 Cunningham of Berkl
ey, California.
Following the bigoted rul
ing of Earlham President
Thomas Jones, white studeota
there were candid in saying
that if Robert and Orace want
ed to marry^, it was their biud-
ne|». President Jones had said
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What Other Editor Say--
A New Emancipation;
Mr, Truman At His ^t
President Tnunan’a address
at Howard University’s com
mencement exercises last Fri
day was the nicest present any
graduate could receive.
Delivered on the eve of
Flag Day, no finer gift could
be made to the nation and to
the world.
The President chose the How
ard commencement as a forum
to speak to &d for all dis
advantaged peoidas every
where.
Both what said aofliMnr .
he said it are significant;
His analysis of the total dvU
rights picture at home;
His clear statonent as to how
false Ideas of white supre
macy are behind mudii of the
trouble in the world.
His story of how he has bat-
led successfully during his
term of office for our right to
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