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^AOE two THK CABOLINA TIMEIi SATURDAY, JVLT 195S The Negro Voter Is Getting Tired Of This Act Cioie0 IphEnBMTM UNimtgep'^ Published Every Saturday By THE CAROLINA TIMES PUBLISHING CO. 518 East Pettigrew Street Durham, N. C. Phones: 5-9873 — 5-0671 — 3-7871 Member National Negro Press Association VOLUME 30—NUMBER 28 SATURDAY, JULY 26th, 1952 It is absolntelr impossible tor tbe CAROLINA TIMES to rnarantee the exact Um* of pablica tion or location In the paper of nnsolivited articles, but will strive to conform with thr wishes of Its reading pnblie a* aw as is tanmanlj pMrifcle. Entered as Second Class matter at tke Post O (fires at Durham, North Carolina under the act Alurrh 3, lS7t. National Advertisinf Representative Inter statr L'nited Newspapers, a4S Fifth Avenue, New \nr\i IT, New York. Branch Office: S East JaeicKon Boulevard. Chicago. III. L. E. AUSTIN 1- Editor, and Publisher M. B. HUDSON .. - Business Manager W. R. BLAKE ... : i— —1 - - Circulation Manager Months I Tear SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Forelcn Countries 9S.90 3 Tears Per Tear $4.00 S9.00 Senator Russell's Bid For The Presidency Before this is read the Democratic Nation al Convention will very likely have selected its candidate for president of the United States. However, this newspaper wagers its reputation that it will not be Senator Rich ard B. Russel of Georgia. That a man of Senator Russell’s training and experience in government affairs should be denied even a chance to run for the presidency of his country for no other reason than he is a southerner is no fault of others but of Sen ator Russell and men and women leaders of the South like him. This plight of a man who many declare is one of the ablest in the United States Senate, has causd him in the final hours of his bid for the presidency to resort to what appears to be questionable maneuvering to impress upon labor organizations and others outside of the South that although he voted for the Taft-Hartley law that he is now opposed to it. This sudden about face of Senator Rus sell will fool none of those who have to do with influencing the strong labor vote nor will it fool those who have to do with in fluencing the Negro vote. For without the combined support of these two there is little hope of anyone becoming president of the United States in a national election. An Associated Press wirephoto, carried in the Sunday daily papers, shows Senator Russell surrounded by a gang of southern “hatesmen” (not statesmen) whose eternal - and A>le. claim ta national note is that are against civil rights legislation and for white supremacy which in the final analysis means that they are against the 15 million Negro citizens of this country having their full measure of citizenship. This beam in the eyes of the average white southerner is so big that he cannot see himself as others see him. Blinded by it until he is practically a moron on the race question, he actually believes that a majority of the people in this nation are fools enough to trust him to guide its destiny and furnish the leadership for all the other democracies of the world. So, instead of great enthusiasm for his candidacy, from other than his fellow southerners, we find the door closed in the face of one of the South’s most capable men. Senator Russell of Georgia. For inspite of his capability when an aspirant for the pre sidency of the United States starts hob nobbing with men like Talmadge of Geor gia, White of Mississippi, Byrd of Virginia, Long of Louisiana, there is no hope that he can ever obtain the labor, Negro and other minority votes on a national scale. Until southern leaders realize this and change their attitude on the civil rights is sue, which is a direct indication of their at titude toward the billion or more non-whites all over the world, every white mother of the South may as well declare from the housetop that, I didn’t birth my son to be president of the United States. This newspaper is a southern institution, which under ordinary circumstances would make us lean toward the candidacy of a southerner being honored wito the highest office which the nation has to bestow upon one of its citizens. We cannot, however, place our approval on any candidate for the presidency, north or south, whose every word, deed and action have labeled him as being opposed to equality for all men in this country and in the world. So we shall continue to oppose to the last breath those of our own section of the coun try whose philosophy of life makes them ujifU for world leadership, as the presidency of the United States demands. If and when such a mantis nominated on the ticket of either party, we shall extend ourselves to the limit to call Negroes from the farms, the classrooms, the cook kitchens, the of fices, the factories and everywhere else to rise up and solemnly cast their vote against him. In taking such a stand we feel that we will be doing the greatest act of preserving this nation as the capstone of democracy rather than encouraging it to become the laughing stock of free people the world over. flUBHSTtlti The Curse Of Denominationalism The most damnable curse of the Protestant church, especially its Negro churches, is de nominationalism. Such a curse on any major branch of Christianity would in the end re sult in a curse on Christianity itself. Ther? was a time when the instigators of this can cerous sore on Protestantism were its ignor ant ministers and laymen. This is not en tirely so in this day and generation as a casual observation of some of the asinine antics of some of our so-called big shots in our leading denominations will disclose. There are many highly trained Negro min isters who are more concerned about whether a person is a Methodist, Baptist, denominationalism who can’t organize and conduct a first-class revival in their own church. They will discourage any move ment of the laymen of their churches to practice brotherhood with' a designing eye on the fact that one dollar used for the pro- motipn of such a program might miss end ing up in their pockets. ■f his newspaper has hesitated to write this editorial because it wanted to make such of its ground. An attack on the church or ministers is always an unpleasant task. But when such an attack is made solely for the purpose of aiding in the preservation of the BY INCH OF CANDLE By ROSE BUTLER BROWNE Acts 29:25 Spiritual Insight “Confession: Healing Operation” By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND PcutoTt Mount GUead Baptist Church believe God Do you really believe God? What words are these for man the weak, sinful and mortal creature; To be able to speak these three words with sinceri ty makes a great difference In a world like this. Confidence in self is worthy and commendable. A belief in home, mother and father is very essential it is the foundation and bedrock of the social structure—life loses (nuch of its richness and beauty without this. It is worthwhile to believe in the moral integrity of : the business leadership of the i banking and business of the com munity. Without this there would be chaos in the community. Thousands of homes are crashing into ruins each year because men and women cannot say: I BELIEVE IN MY HOME. Cor ruption is. robbing the nation of moral vitality and men can no longer say: I BELIEVE IN MY GOVERNMENT. Life sinks down into a dark night of disorder and confusion unless we can say I BELIEVE GOD! Paul rose tri umphantly above circumstance of a storm-swept sea to rekindle the spark of hope in the dark est hour of the storm. Those who are anchored in God can always stand alx>ve ev ery circumstance when all hope seems lost. On that ship all hope was lost as the storm raged for fourteen days. The captain and his officers had given up all hope of rescue or salvation. They had done everything in their power. Listen to the ago nizing cry of despair:” No that we should t>e saved was then taken away . . .’' As they saw it there was no hope for the ship and there seemed no hope for the more than ^two hundred persons aboard ship. How strange that God’s light of hope somehow breaks through in the darkest hour and we are saved, our goal i^ reached and our hopes are realized. God worked through the man that was bound in chains as a pris oner on that ship: PAUL SPEAKS A MESSAGE OF HOPE IN THE DARKEST that never fails—tor seeming evil worketh good for me . . .” Very often man’s darkest hour becomes God’s greatest oppor tunity. I have seen it happen so many times in the lives of the faithful children of God.Many times when all seem lost the light of God’s care and blessed providence breaks upon the dark pathway. There are many times when it seems as if Satan and his forces will win the day and rout the forces of truth and righteousness. I know for I have seen it happen many times in a brief ministry for God in a world of sin and evil! God’s power in a critical moment breaks through the roadblock thrown up by Satan to hinder and impede the progress of the work of the Kingdom. In such critical hours when the outcome hangs in the balance we ought re member the Divine promise: . . “Fear not thou art mine. . When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not over flow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee . . .” What blessed assurance Is ’ I wtHtee«€ve4hehwd^ ily°“-ian say in the dark hour: ‘‘I BHXIEVE GOD WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS” By C. WILSON HARDER Presbyterian or what have you than they hesitate to take up the are about him being a Christian. To say that this in the end weakens the whole ef forts of the church to present a solid front against the world is putting it lightly. The root of all this hellishness is the love of money, the desire to gather under one’s domain as many followers as possible. The greater the number the greater the fishes and loaves. While all this is going on our homes are breaking down and filling divorce courts, morality in our schools and colleges has reached its lowest depths and the sports, theatrical and musical words are doing more to lead the way to a broader concept of uni- venal brotherhood than the one institution WtAblifhed by God for that purpose^the Christian chuixh. Time are so-called ministers of the gospel who will turn hell upside down to promote This eternal preaching of denominational ism not only serves to weaken and make less effective the church, but it rears its uglx head in our schools, employment and else where. So much so that efficiency is not always the grounds for obtaining work and promotions, but denominations. In the end it is the entire Negro race that becomes the victims of being divided when there ought to be the closest kind of cooperation and harmony. The CAROLINA TIMES hates de nominationalism. If we had the power we would destroy it all and put in its place one univei;Bal church whose ministers would have one aim, the salvation of men and not the gathering of every dollar they can for their own selfish purposes. As this column enters its third year in the weeldy newspapers of America, recent Congression al actions reveal the influence wielded by weekly newspapers and their readers. • * • Events also prove if Ameri cans are Kiven^ facts, tliey will | act to corrects existent evils. I So far the in-I depend entl weekly news-| papers o(| America havej stood alone ini bringing forthl nndisoiosed' facts, letting C. W. Hardar chips fall where they may. * * * Significantly Congress did far more than stop government pow er to control consumer credit, and to cut down the powers of the OPS or Office Plenty Screwy. Unnoticed, Congress toolc an even more Important step. * * * Congress at the same time passed a measure to aid and eol^ courage American newsprint production. An attempt will bow be made to combat-the foreign rnonopoly squeezing the lUe-Uood out of independent newspapers. * * * Action was taken despite prs- vious protests by State Secretary Dean Acheson that nothing should be done to antagonize Canadian newsprint producers despite constant price increases totalling more than 150%. • • * In Washington leaders of tede- pendent business have long urged Congressmen to iwotect the free American press from monopoly . exploitation. This need has been pointed out time and time as the first bulwark in the defense of American liberty. The Senate Small Business Com mittee, headed by Sen. John Sparkman, Ala., launched still another probe «if the situation. Nttiooal FtdifiUo> tl iDdiptodwrt Boilotsfl But in recent months, facts not covered by the big dailies have been brought to small cities and towns of America. • « * These facts, witMiut adorn ment, caused readers of weekly newspapers across the nation to protest to their Congressmen. After ail, in the big cities, there are people who can be persuad ed that whatever soiui Is silly is really not sUly. * * • But high flown theories do not ring true in the smaller cities .-nd towns of the nation. * * • In these regions, where the vote !b controlled, nonsense Is still looked npoa aa nonsense. * * * Sincere Congressmen of both parties voice pleasure over re ceiving so many expressions of opinions from the solid people who read weeldy newspapers. • * • Tsrpical eomment: "We had a feeling that many things, if they were known, would not set too well with these people, but un til we bad something concrete to go on, it’s hard to disprove tto theory boys.” * • • Many Congressmen give the weekly newspapers full credit for recent acts curtailing the power of the government to med dle in private business and lives. • .1 Many Congressmen feel this* situation is healthy, are pre pared to act to aid weekly news papers buy newsprint on a com petitive market. * • • Naturally, bureaucrats who have lost power, or position be cause of ^s reaction, will op pose such action. * • • So organised Independent bus iness is preparing to battle on IBls Issue. The results of tbe past two weeks show that such a battle can be won. Friends Wanted For Young TB Patient Last week you read the story of a woman who is a patient at the local tuberculosis Sanatori um. You were told of her needs and desires in hopes tliat your church group or club—or you as an individual — would answer her appeal by sponsoring her under the Patient Friendship Program, a project of the local Tuberculosis and Health Associ ation. This week let’s consider the case of a young girl of 15 who we’ll refer to as M. E. Sh^ was born in Hamlet, N. C. but has lived in Durham most of her life. She has been in the sana torium 7 months and has been sick for a. great deal longer than that. Year before last on the first day of school she was taken sick and the doctor thought she had polio. When she went to the Health Department tor an ex amination and was fiuoroscoped, she was advised by the doctor to go to bed for three or lour months. The following year she started back to school and around Christmas she felt m badly that she had to miss three or four days each .week. She went again to the doctor, who had been checking her regularly, and she was told that she had tuberculosis and had to go to the Sanatorium. M. E. was attending Whltted School. You can imagine how hard it was for her to leave school, interrupt her education, and leave her friends to go to a sanatorium. But she hasn't let that get the best of her. She uti lizes her time by listening to the radio, she Ukes music. Also she crochets a great deal, em broiders and has learned to weave chairback sets since she has been In the Sanatorium. (Continued On Page Seven) At two different times in my life I have set out earijestly to work with children who had de veloped behavior that was not acceptable. In the first instance, it was youngsters who were un aware of the social ameneties. Boys walked into the classrooms with their hats on; l>oys and girls talked in loud boisterous tone, and walked through doors without looking to see whether or not anyone was near enough to make holding the door a necessity. After earnest effort on the part of the faculty and staff of that school and the work ers in the Department of Edu cation, in one school year the patterns of behavior of those young people, in school, had changed. Within two years, the bus drivers and merchants in the community were comment ing on the fine attitudes expres sed in gentlemanly and ladylike behavior. The first year of our Child ren's Church someone was al ways reportii)g the loss of mon ey. Within six months every ar ticle lost in that Church was re turned. Whenever a loss is re ported the money or article is recovered in that same service, by merely announcing the loss and soliciting the cooperation cl all of the children. Not only do they respond to announcements but they immediately turn in articles and money that is left in lavatories, choir rooms and elsewhere. This kind of change requires unremitting consistent effort. It is based on respect for the person seeking the change, until understanding of the better way is born, and a value is chosen with which the better behavior is consistent. If I did not believe in the improvability of humaar beings, my life’s work would be futile and unrewarding. As I listen to the political speakers I am convinced that those of us who believe that people can t>e improved have expended too great a proport ion of our efforts on intellectual development and not enough on moral development. When I lis ten to the great statesmen of a great nation threaten to with draw support from any candi date who declares his intention to uphold the constitution of the United States of America, in cluding all of its amendments, I shudder, When I hear men of high scholastic training who stand in places that call for wis dom, declare that to permit ev*- ery man a fair chance to eat bread by the sweat of his own brow through the work of his own hands and mind, is offens ive to them, I am challenged. When I hear them call on God to support their contentions, 1 am frightened. That so large a segment of our , nation has grown up in pur portedly Christian homes, has gone through school and college, and grown to manhood and wo man hood without an under standing of the immutable char acter of right and wrong is ser ious. That these unmoral persons could be elevated to positions of trust without revealing their lack of strength, is a tragedy. The lack of understanding is not confined to either politcal party. A leading contender for nomination in one party stated in this city that he feared that qivii rights established by law would lead to a deluge of law suits. It seemed not to occur to (Continued On Page Seven) *********** Wilson District Cliurcli Scliool Wilson — The recent three days session of the Church School Convention H Christian Education, of the Wilson District Cape Fear Conference, A. M.‘E. Zion Church, was a great suc cess from every angle. It was under the general supervision of the Rev. A. B. Moseley, Per- siding Elder of the Wilson Dis trict and senior Presiding El der of the Cape Fear conference. Presiding Elder Moseley who had been very sick during the preceeding three months was present each day, along with his gracious and affectionate wife, Mrs. Cora E. Mosoloy, thus giv- ing to the convention a beautiful picture of God’s love for hiunan- ity and man’s faithfulness to God. The sessions were held in the ccmm9dious Invitiation church l(>cated six miles west of Snow Hill, on a spacious green lawn surrounded by a beautiful grove which provided a grand setting for the making and studying of rrports and for discussing meth ods of Christian Education work. The Rev, W. R. Fryar was the H ost-Minister. The Theme of the convention was, “Forward With Christ”. The motto was "Lifting As We Climb’’. The officers of the con vention were. The Rev, A. B. Moseley, Presiding Elder; Mr, Frank Edwards Director of Adults; Mrs. Ruth Everette, Di rector of Youth; Mrs, Cora E, Moseley, Director of Children Mrs. A, M. Hobbs Chief Sec*y- Miss Pemice Artis Recording Sec’y. The Finance Committee The Revs. A. Moseley, K. Mele- vin Taylor, W. R, Fryar, J, W. Little and Mr. Frank Edwards. Courtesy Committee The Rev. A. G, Dunston Mr. Jack Britt, Mrs, Gaynell Outlaw, Miss Set tle G. Baker and Miss Dorothy Autry. Reporter to the Papers, Rev. R. R. Pearsall. Presiding Elder Moseley deliv ering the opening address, after thanking the ministers and lay men of the district for carrying forward the work and for being so nice to him during his ill ness, speaking from the theme, declared that “Going Forward With God”, 1. Made men dif ferent. 2. Made Men Brothers. 3. Made a Better Commimity. 4. Made a Better World and 5. Would Bring us to a Glorious End. The Key-note Message was de livered by the Rev. R. R. Pear sall, Minister of St. Matthews Church Goldsboro from the subject, “Working With God”. Other sermons were delivered by Revs. K. Malvin Taylo;, Min ister of St. John Church, Wilson Subject, “Life Has No Bargain Counters” Rev Lubbie Matthis, Minister Jacksons Chapel Church Best Station, Subject, “Strain Your Spiritual Eye That 'tomorrow May Be Better”. The Rev. G. A. Thompson Minister of Pauls Chapel and Little Wesley Churches, Subject, "Working To gether With Christ”, and the Rev. Daniel Pridgen, Minister of Bethel and Lovicks Chapel Churches, Subject, “The Pres ence of God”. Music fOr the convention was furnished by the Invitation Jun- (Continued On Page Seven) "ORDEAL BY PEDIGREE
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