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VAGI TWO m OASOUNA mas SATVKDAT, ado. tnd, 19SS m^ms 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 Preu AasociatUm VOLUME 30—NUMBER 29 SATURDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 1952 It >• abMl«t«lr ImpoMlble (or the CABOUNA TIMES to tnmnuitee the exact ttae of ^oUIm- tie* w lowiti— te tke paper of nnsoUcited artleies, bat will itrlve to oonform wUk tbe wtohi of its re«4ia( pablic u near aa ia hnmanly poaslble. bter«d aa Seoond Claai matter at the Pact O fftces at Durham, North Carolina nnder the aet .•f March S, ISTI. Natioaal Advertiaiiic Representatiye Inter state United Newspapers, 54S Fifth Avernne, New York 17, New York. Branch Office; S East Jaetuon Boulevard, Chicago, 111. L. E. AUSTIN M. B. HUDSON R. E. STEWART Editor and Publisher Business Manager Circulation Manager • Moatha 1 Tear ^ SUBSCRIPTION RATES; IZ.M Foreign Countries fS.t* 3 Years Per year $4.00 19.00 PN. D. WOeK AT NORTH UROLINA COLLEGE The announcement published in our is sue of July 19 that North Carolina College will offer a doctorate degree in education is somewhat disgusting but not in the least surprising. The Carolina Times had more than 12 months ago forewarned i^ readers that such an evil plot was in the making. Somehow we do not hold officials of the University of North Carolina responsible for this tragedy it is inflicting on North Carolina College. We look upon them as being beyond the reach of all decency in matters of this kind, as the record will show that they will stop at nothing and undertake anything to carry out their pernicious schemes against freely opening the doors of UNC to Negroes. I The responsibility of this most unfor tunate tradegy that has befallen N. C. Col lege, we say, must then be placed on the shoulders of the president of the college, Dr. Alphonso Elder. Either Dr. Elder does not know the facilities necessary for d^to- rate work in any field, or he knows it but does not have the courage to oppose the program at N. C. College and is deliberately allowing himself to become a party to a staggering wrong against the people of his race. Whether he desires to be classed as such or not, in the very nature of the casie, when any Negro assumes the position of a college president, there is placed upon his shoulders the responsibility of civic, social and even the political leadership of his people. The time has not yet come when he may confine his activities solely to the field of education. Because of the numerous and capable persons available in the opposite group for leadership in all fields of endeav or this may or may not be the case as it so regards them. Dr. Elder is no poverty stricken man. He does not have to stultify his conscience and submit to the educational slaughter of Negroes seeking advanced work in the field of education in such an abortive plot as that now being cooked up for N. C. Col lege, merely to earn a living. He ought to put his foot down against it. He ought to politely but courageously tell the N. C. College Board of Trustees that he will not be a party to this makeshift scheme, wfiich he and every sensible person knows, is being perpetrated solely to keep Negroes from applying for entrance to UNC. There are three types of college presi dents. There is the type who, because of his achievements—not necessarily in the field of education—brings prestige to a college by being at its head; there is the second type who is just a mediocre person possessing no extraordinary ability, upon whom the col lege brings prestige. Then there is the third type who is below the level of even a medi ocre personality who takes the prestige from a college when he is placed at the head of it. It takes no sage to determine in just what category the president of any Negro college now operating in this country fails when he deliberately becomes a party to such a scheme as^that'now being planned ior N. C. College. GUI ANY FURTHER GOOD CSHE ODT OF ALABAMA! The Carolina Times is going to reserve its verdict until a later date in the case against the Democratic National Conven tion’s nominee for vice president of the United States, Senator John Sparkman. We don’t know enough about Senator Spark man at this time to advise our readers whether to vote a Democratic or Republician ticket in November, or go fishing. We recall very vividly president Frank lin Roosevelt’s appointment of Hugo Black, another Alabamian to the United States Su preme Court And the howl that went up against that appointment from liberal whites, as well as the Negro press. We help ed do the howling. Justice Black has proved beyond any question to be one of the great liberals of the nation’s highest tribunal. It will be remembered that Justice Black was admittedly a fonher member of the Ku Klux Klan. If Sparkman has in him the making of a record in the office of vice president, as clean as that made by Black in the office of United States Supreme Court Jus tice, we may yet be proud of him. This newspaper promises its readers that it will leiive no stone unturned to de termine for whom the Negroes should vote in November. We promise them that we will give them the information in time for the election and that we will do so without fear or favor. There are hundreds and thousands of white people in the South who would like to accept the Negro as any other individual but they are afraid to do so becaiise of the social and economic reprisals they will have to suffer. Once they are sure of economic security, such as that afforded a U. S? Su preme Court justice, they assume an en tirely different attitude from that of other members of their own group. Secretly they detest the hypocrisy of white, supremacy but must keep up the act to hold their social and economic security. If the vice presidential nominee of the Democratic party hopes to be of any service in influencing the southern vote, from a practical standpoint, he can not afford at this point in the game to take too definite a stand in favor of civil rights. What he does in favor of such a program- will have to be done after he has been elected or he will never realize the office with the aili of the southern vote. For the time being we would advise Negroes of the south, and elsewhere for that matter, to put on an intensive registra tion campaign. If each one of the 5,000 Negro teachers of North Carolina would be re sponsible for the registration of 10 other Negroes, the goal of 50,000 new registered Negro voters in this state would be realized. With such a program Negro citizens will be in a more formidiable position to strike down their enemies and support their friends at the ballot box. Yoii ask us, can any further good come out of Alabama? Let us Wait and see, but while we are waiting let us register and vote. THE DAYS OF THE NEGRO BEGGARS HAVE PASSED (Continued From Page One) point James T. Taylor to the City Council to fill the unexpired term of the late J. Fnmklin Barfield. With tbe exception of Ay thr«e new'fnembera of the Coimcil, who cndMvor to get its members to see the -fairness in giving the Negro 27 per cent of the population and 43 per cent of the school population some kind of a r^resen- tation in the affairs of the city, the same stony, cold and heartless pattern was follow- "AND SO, THEY COMPROMISED" V . v/ ■ w ed as heretofore. Intelligent Durham Negroes were not surprised. Had th^ City Council voted in favor of Mr. Taylor, it would have been a distinct surprise. Here in Durham Negroes control more cotporate wealth per capita than any other city in the south. They are building homes, housing projects and what not. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are in Durham, through the efforts of its Negro population, to help raise the economic level of the city and make for its general welfare and prosperity. In spite of it all, Durham Negroes are the most repudiated, the most scorned and the most rebuffed of any city in North Carolina. Negro firemen in Winston-Salem, Negro members of the City Council iij Greens boro, Fayetteville and Winston-SSlem; a Ne gro deputy sheriff in Greensboro; a Negro on the Board of education in Releigh are a few of the forward steps other North Carolina cities have taken while Durham, steeped in prejudice, still lives in the benighted past. We think the days of the Negro beggars for better schools, jobs and opportunities in civil affairs of Durham are over. The time has come when Negroes must use as their last and only resort the ballot box. Ev ery qualified Negro man and woman must register and vote. They must do so for their own protection and that of their fine and noble white friends who often stick their necks out in their defense. This newspaper assumes this attitude after observing 25 years of begging for schools, beg^ng for streets, begging for every inch of advancement the race has made in this city. It is satisfied that the few progressive steps that have been taken here in their behalf have not been done because of any gratuitous spirit, fair play or respect city officials have for Negro citizens but because of their voting power. We shall look with disfavor on any further crusade of begging or attempt to appeal to the conscience of the present group of city officials. The time of the Negro beg gar has passed. The time of the Negro voter is here. Without the proper use of the ballot there is no hope, there is no step forward for Negroes of Durham in civic affairs. Spiritual Insight ‘Why Are Ye Fearful?’ By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND PoMtoTt Mount Gilead Baptiit Church “. . . I am the Lord thy. God . . . Fear not, for I am with thee Isa. 42:5 Men the world over are fear ful. The explanation seems to be that they have forgotten the sovereign power -t)f God. We have turned from God and we are now worshipping the God's of ouF own creation. God’s words vtarn us that we are the victims of unnecessary fears. We WASHINGTON AND SMALl BUSINESS” Despite the bumid heat of fummertlme Washington, a chUl wind blows ofF the Potomac in to OPS, the OiHce of Price Sta bilization, better known as the Office Plenty Screwy. • * * In closins up basiness for the session, Congress handed the Of* floe Plenty" i^ i million ont In Its b'ndre million was reqnested. More than half of the 17,- 000 people eiri' ployed, and it{ is to ^ noted the word "em- C. W. Harder ployed” is used instead of “work ing" are in the the process ol dismissal, it is announced. * • * But apparently none of the geniuses that have sparked the Office Plenty Soewy to the heights of ridiculousness will walk the plank. • * • A curious situation, but with a cut ijf iunds of 40%, approxi mately 65% of the OPS employ ees will be dismissed. • * • Simple arithmetio Indicate* dismissals will he among the lower paid clerical workers, leav ing intact in seats of upholstered leather chaits, the high paid brains of the Office Plenty Screwy. • * • U. S. taxpayers will still pay plenty to keep over-stuffed chairs in top OPS offices filled. « • « Consider 95,000 American fam ilies with three children and ai^ nual incomes of $5,000 each. Each of those famlltes have in come for dednctions of $632 per year. Thus all income tax paid by 95,000 famiUei will Jnst pay for 11m Office Plenty Screwy. • • • In the meantime, MSA, Mar shall Plan successors continues © Vcdentloa at Isdcptndcnt Bwtn«ii By C. WIISON HARDER to shov4 out American taxes at an unprecedented rate. In three consecutive days, covered by MSA Bulletin Nos. 123, 124 and 125, a total of $22,872,000 was'given away, or an average of $7,624,000 per day, about the daily average so far tliis year. * ^ * Every day » whole year's In come tax from 12,000 families with three children and incomes of $5,000 are given away. • * • The excuse given is defense. * * * Tet Just one item was $500,000 worth of high priced coffee given to Greece. * * * The blue print ot the Job need ed from individual citizens to prevent national bankruptcy was fairly well revealed in Chicago. The democratic party is commit ted to continuance «f futile give away programs, and the GOP platform also calls for the con tinuance of “foreign aid” which covers such Items as coffee and tobacco. * * * Here Is the crnx ot the entire sitoation. A large share of the billions given away are in the form of manufactnred goods, produced by just • handful of huge V> S. corporatioqf. * • • Their "sales” abroad are paid for by every Independent busi nessman, and salaried person in the nation. • • • So far the pnly prominent voice heard condemning this wast; of U. S. taxes Is that of Herbert Hoover, Little, if any, heed Is paid to his warnings, In either party. • * • Thus it becomes apparent that if the American people are to get out of the mire of waste and inflation, they must pull them selves up by the bootstraps. * * * It does not appear that the leaders of either political party are going to tackle the Job. are warned against letting im- due fears waste our God-given energies. Why do we waste our most pirecious powers and re sources in unnecessary fears? We have been commanded to use our powers for the glory of God — and to bring comfort, healing, peace and happiness to manftind. Why sit down and pine away in feears when there is a crying need for you and your eneergies to be harnessed in the service of your feUowman to the glory of God. Why do you sit in fear when someone needs your help with a heavy burden? Why waste your energies in fear when some one will be cheered by a good deed or a good word from you? Why do you sit in fearful jitters when some good cause needs a push from you that it might reach its blessed goal of human welfare? '' If you serve God and tbe brotherhood, you will have little time left to be eaten up by vicious and destructive fears. The Word of God is true. It has been tried and tested through the ages. The remedy Is to follow the matchless wisdom of the Di vine word: .... “Fear not thou art mine . . .’’An anxious, hys terical and fear-ridden age needs to ponder the words of the master spoken on the stormy sea: . . “WHY ARE YE FEAR FUL? HOW IS THAT YE HAVE NO FAITH?” Please think on these words. This seems to be the meaning. I am his child; this is his world and why then should I be fearful. Fear is a spiritual sickness; a product of a weak or sSattered faith. Re lieve yourself from fears by de veloping a great and courageous faith in the power of God. . . “To have faith and so to win our souls . . .” How canr you be fearful If you have faith in God’s gracious care and providence? How can , you be fearful when you have-’faith in God’s love and mercy In a (PluM turn to Page Sev«i) What Other Editors Say- ^Keginning Of A New Political Era In The South From out the sackcloths and ashes of a dim and benighted past, of reaction, isolationism and economic uncertainty, the Republican party at last comes out into the open air of vigor and modem acUevement. De spite its years of power, in which it glorified more in the worship of its dead than the well-being of its living, it failed the nation in long-range planning and the fortificatior^s so essential in dealing with unseen emergencies- While it got a hint through its overthrow by the Woodrow Wil son era, immediately upon being trusted again, looked back for the "fleshpots of Egypt” and like Lot’s wife, turned to a pil lar of salt. All along there were those young Republicans who envis ioned a new day with a new people, in a modern trend of changing times. These were shunted back by their elders and not given opportunity to meet at the level of modem views. The climax probably came to flower through the Hoover re gime when an economic catas trophe seized the land. The tides of the mighty ocean were turn ed loose and by the thousands, they fled north and west and joined the Democratic party. Through and by this exodus the Republican Party became a mi nority party by the millions and was soon to find itself holding the shell of an empty tradition that had taken its place in the museum of legends. A new Mos^ came to judge ment. Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to salvage from this exodus and those forward thinking lib erals the nucleus for a new party, a new deal! With one of their best vote getters, the Republican Party tried twice for a come back. Pri or to this they sent out the huge form and the bombing voice of Wendell Willkie, crying in the wilderness — “Prepare ye the way of the Lord”. While WiUkie had much of the modern ideas and envisioned that the GOP if it was to live, was to take on the new order of the day, he found himself hapless in the hands of the old reactionary bosses—and too many people living who re membered the days of Herbert Hoover. Thomas E. Dewey tried twice this was enough for him. But he has come back. In nearly every television show at the GOP con vention, he was seen rallying around the forces who had be come convinced that their best bet was General Dwight D. Eis enhower. Dewey will be accord ed a place in history as the one man who strove to give the par ty a new birth and a new day. The GOP now has a chance to give the country much of what it criticized the Democratic Par ty for promising and not imple menting; it can go out and re claim that territory it accused the Democrats of abandoning; it could bring about actual civil rights and for all time write its emphasis upon the tablet of state as carrying out for the first time the immortal dream of Lincoln at Gettysburgh. It has been taught the lesson of reaction and vncilation, it has seen those whosi emancipation it sponsored turn around to “fol low the hand that fed them”; it tias the correct diagnosis of the terrible disease that laid it up in the clinic of despair and inertia for twenty long years. With General Dwight David Eisenhower, it may have once • again that chance to richly and rightly assert itself as THAT GRAND OLD PARTY. The lover of just government and fair play, see the hopes for the coming of a new order and a two-party system in the South. There has never before been hailed an era such as we now approach.—MEMPHIS WORLD. Down A Rat Hole Unfortunately there is a school of thought in America which mistakenly believes that democ racy can be seved with dollar bills' and atom bombs alone. Nothing could be further from the truth. Latest example of this mud dled approach is seen in the an- nouncment that the £lxport-Im- ptort Bank has just loaned BOOTJO ^ South another $19 Africa. A total of $35 million has already been advanced. The money, we are told, is to be used to help South Africa build an electric power plant to separate uranium from the gold taken by enslaved native labor from the mines. The uranium wiU eventually go into the manufacture of atomic weapons, which in turn will help keep the restless dark er peoples from winning their rightful share of the country’s resources. But while the bankers were receiving their handout from the U. S. Taxpayers, South Africa was busy jailing thousands of citizens, white and colored, for violation of the nation's perni cious jim-crow laws. On rigged charges of “con spiracy to overthrow the gov ernment,’' these citizens were being given jail terms of from one to six months each. They were being convicted of such heinous (primes as pur chasing stamps at windows des ignated for white persons and being caught outside of the mis erable ghettos to which natives are severely restricted. As long as America insists upon doling out millions to gov ernments which carry out these sort of anti-social, inhuman pol icies all of the uranium in the world will not save them when these oppres^d peoplies~nhally decide they have had enough. Louis XVI pitted French can non against pitchforks and lost. Czar Nicholas sent his sabre- swinging Russian ' Cossacks against unarmed peasants and lost. The British rushed crack red- coatcd troops and hired Hessians against disorganized colonists and lost. Not even the atomic bomb will be able to withstand the deadly wrath of human beings when they-are sufficiently pro voked and hell-bent for free dom. Sending our dollars to South Africa without demanding re forms in her present morally- corrupt government is simply pouring money down a rat hole. As long as these conditions con tinue under our tacit sponsor ship, we are simply helping to build a witches’ pyre on which democracy may ItseU be de stroyed. —AFRO-AMERICAN Inspiring Progress Of ‘The Negro In Education” Depicited In New Documentary Film At Regal Theater The “Negro In Education,” a documentary short featiure film on the widening educational op portunities for members ol the race, opens on August 3, 1952 for 7 days at the Regal theatre. The first in a series of absor- in^ motion pictures dealing with Negro America, “Education” spotlights Dr. Frederick Patter son, President of Tuskegee Inst itute, who in a film report to Claude A. Bamett of the Asso ciated Negro Press, visits the campuses and class rooms of such outstanding educational in stitutions as North CaroUna Col lege, Tuskegee Institute, Ben- net College, and Howard Uni- versity. At Howard, Dr. Mordecal Johnson reveals the 17 million dollar expansion program al ready in work at tbe University. Produced by E. M. Glucks- man, this film series received the advice and counsel of luch dis tinguished personages as Dr. Frederick Patterwn, President ol Tuskegee Institute; Mr. Willard Townsend, President of the Uni ted Transport Service Employ ees, CIO; Mr. Claude A. Bamett, Director of the Associated Negro Press; Rev. Marshall Shepard, Recorder of Deeds for the city ot Philadelphia; Mr. C. C. Spauldinlg, President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co.; and Mr. William Trent, Di rector of the United Negro Col lege Fund acting as a National Board of Selection. The other films in the aeries dealing with “Sports,” “Enter tainment,” “National Aflahrs,” “Industry” and “Science,” will be seen at The Regal soon.
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