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JUSTICE WEEPS IN PIH COUNTY
You read in last week’s issue of the CARO
LINA TIMES an accotint of the brutal beat
ing of a former North Carolina College co-ed
and the wife of a Korean soldier, by two
strong courageous policemen in Greenville.
You also read that one of the officers is re
ported to have kicked the young woman after
he had thrown her to the floor. Not satisfiad
with the brutal beating administered her bfy
these two vicious legal gangsters, the Green
ville courts proceeded to follow the pattern
of its strong courageous and efficient officers
and booked the young woman on five counts,
namely: two for assault on an officer, an
other for interfering with a^ officer and
two more for resisting arrest. At a trial that
lasted for 11 hours two Negro lawyers waged
a grim but futile struggle to exact from a
Pitt County court what is seldom if ever
exacted in that part of the State—justice for
a Negro.
» Unless you have been to Pitt County, in
which Greenville is located, it will be hard
for you to understand just how such a
travesty against justice and fair play could
happen in these times, especially against an
American soldier who is fighting for Demo
cracy on foreign soil.
If you find it hard to understand you will
need to go to Greenville and the rural areas
of the county to discover that Negroes live
in all most perpetual fear of the white people
whose fondest and greatest obsession is to
maintain white supremacy whatever the cost
You will (Mad to walk down the streets of
Greenville and observe the type of white
people who inhabit that city to know that
there is little hope for any respectable or in
telligent Negro who happens to have even
the slightest misunderstanding with one of
them. You have got to see their half closed
eyes, their mouths with the comers turned
downward and their noses that look more
hawk bills than human breathing organs to
know that some of the very lowest elements
of white people in the South live in Green
ville.
In Greenville the daily newspaper never
refers to a Negro woman as Miss or Mrs.
In Greenville and Pitt County school of
ficials make no pretense at providing equal
schools for Negroes with the white schools.
In Greenville you can generally tell where
the white community ends because you step
off the pavement into the mud. In the coun
ty Negro sharecroppers and tenant farmers
live practically as slaves with their white
landlords quite often stealing or taking their
crops and leaving the Negro no alternative
but to go back and work harder to enrich bis
white master.
So it was in Greenville that a jroung Ne
gro woman of one of the most respected
families was beaten,\tried and convicted for
having the courage to question an officer
of the law about the right of way in traffic.
So two brave and courageous Greenville
policemen are probably being heralded by
the chief of police and other city officials as
heroes. Justice in Greenville and Pitt Coun-
Jias been raped by the veiy ones who have
sworn to uphold her chastity.
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COMMIHEE
ON NEGRO AFFAIRS
This newspaper seriously regrets that it
must write this editorial but there are times
in pursuing the course of true journalism
when duty must be- put above that of the
closest friendship. It is with that in mind
that we set about performing this very un
pleasant task of calling the attention of the
Durham Committee on Negro Affairs to the
fact that it has about missed the boat by not
presenting the people of the city and county
with any organized effort to increase the
number of registered Negroes here.
The mere fact that Durham had over 10,-
000 Negro voters several years ago does not
mean that that number can be forever main
tained or should not be increased. There is
the problem of people moving from Durham,
and there is the ever present fact that peo
ple will die, to say nothing of those who
move out of precincts into others within the
County and City without being alert or a-
ware of the necessity^ of having their vot
ing place changed.
The CAROLINA TIMES would not like to
feel that the Committee on Negro Affairs is
in need of a transfusion of fresh blood with
in its political department. We would rmUier
place the responsibility on a serious case of
lethargy than to think that the Political
Division of the Committee does not have the
energy or the know-how. That department
has done too good a job in years past to suc
cessfully accuse it of such.
This newspaper would like to recommend
to the Committee that it get busy on this
Saturday and present the people of the City
and County with a well planned and organ
ized program for increasing the number of
registered Negroes. Saturday is the last day
but if the Political Division of The Commit
tee will put forth a serious effort we are aore
it can do the job even at this late hour.
All over the State and the rest of the
South Negroes are clamoring as never before
to register and vote in this year's election.
The eyes of the entire nation are on the
southern Negro vote. Every newspaper,
every organization that has anything al stake
in the election is urging its members to
register and vote.' When the Durham Com
mittee on Negro Affairs fails to bestir itself
on such a momentous occasion we think it is
time for some voice to be heard against ^ts
idleness.
? •' Vv-:'!'. ■
By EDMUND UPDALE
(CAROLINA TIMES LONDON CORRESPONDENT)
Spiritual Insight
By REVEREyn HAROLD ROLAND
Ptutorf Mount CUeud Baptist Church
, ‘Steadfastness In Trouble”
"Be steadfast in troubl«..'‘RoTO.*' age. Faith’s leavening power un- you must know how to tap and
12:12 |dergird3 anii supports when use the great source of Divine
Do you know the secret of' heavy blows of trouble strike. Power. How can 1 do it some
being steadfast in time of I Faith gives a bright uplook may aslc, Well, learn to pray
trouble? Since trouble is a com- when the outlook is dark. Faith by praying. Pray until your soul
mon lot of man you ought to
know Uiis blessed secret.
Trouble is Just one step away,
it comes as an uninvited guest.
Mine comes to day. Yours come
tomorrow. How can we be stead
fast,* then, in our hour of
trouble? Trouble coBoes In many
forms — disturbing anxieties,
pain, sickness, failure, dlnp^ Faith
pointment, rajectitm,
tribulations anl i-
heartaches. Why gfory in ywir
neighbor’s trouble—^yours wiH'
come tomorrow. Thus it is wise
for us to search for and find
a power to make us steadfast in
our hour of trouble.
There is a power to keep us
steadfast when shattering im-
-paetof tha baavy bknua of your .
trouble come.
Faith, simple faith, makes us
steadfast in trouble. Tr\ily the
strong confidence and convic
tion of faith will make us stead
fast. The conviction of faith
kinoes hope when all seems
hopeless. Faith generates the
power of spiritual strength.
Faith revitalizes our weak cour-
gives power to rise out of the is flooded with Divine Power,
ruins and ashes of trouble. Pray until you liave new out-
Faith is a light for the seeming look on life. Pray until you can
darkness of trouble. I have stand steadfast in your hour of
seen great faith at work in the troubie...“Praying at all times...
lives of men and women in Pray without ceasing,
time of trouble. Faith builds the I
ladder by which we climb out word of God makes for
of the dark depths of trouble. I steadfastness in time of trouble.
enables you to be ' ^ careful and prayerful read-
STRONG IN THELORD...AND God’s word will give
OLD YOUB GROUND BY Power for the time of trouble.
OVERCOMING ALL THE ^^t its message grip your mind
i"OE...” I dominate your very
Praper will make you stead- thoughts and feelings. Remem-
fast in time of trouble. Prayer—a ® “Man thinketh in his
healing and strengthening com- heart so is he...’Paul rightly
munion with God—^will make -tells the Ephesians that the word
you steadfast in time of trouble. ^ "YOUR SWORD’’,
n tWs troublous hour we need How can you be steadfast with-
rpHigpnvpr thp high art of °*^t sword? How can the
prayer. Prayer is a mighty l^hristian warrior ^£ht his bat-
weapon* in time of trouble.
Many are fighting losing battles
because we lack the weapon of
prayer. Prayer releases power
for the hour of trouble. Through
prayer in the hour of trouble,
we are connected with God the
source of all power, to be stead
fast in your hour of trouble
London Acclaims Gertbwin’B
Negro Opera, “Porgy
Aad Bess”
Adjectives and superlatives —
“Magnificent, tremendous, bril
liant”— piled up in the bars of
the great Stell Opera House,
London, as the critics sank dou
ble whi^ies to slake their pqfch-
ed throats.
Their throats were not parch
ed by the weather—winter is set
tling, in over here. They were
parched by that dry feeling one
gets when a lump sticlis in your
throat, when your innermost
feelings are aroused.
’The Impact of George Gersh
win’s Negro Opera, “Porgy and
Bess,” did Jtist that.
The opera opened as gently as
a cottonfield in the path of a
tornado, and as the heartening
yet terrifying drama of love,
and lile, and human longing took
us all along Catfish Row, Char
leston, one could almost smell
the scent of blossom on the
biMse in Carolina.
The opera has never before
been performed in England. It
was finally an^ triumphantly
staged in the pangs of misgiv
ings, doubts, fears — all .the
anguish of an important cultural
event — and a petty squabble.
The musicians’ union demand
ed at almost the last minute of
ireoaration that your dlsting-
u 1 s h e d Alexandre Smallens
should be allowed to wield the
batron for only three nights of
the nm — “Ije^ause he would be
putting an English conductor out
of work."
Yoiur correspondent was be
hind tbe scenes at the Stoll when
And that villain' Crown _
gigantic John McCurry played
the part so vividly that we hated
him. •
Cab Calloway, as Sportin’
Life, the man who steals Bess
from her Sweetheart, emerges in
the opera as an artist with far
more than music in his soul.
As the story unfolded to some
of beloved Gershwin’s l)est tunes,
such as “It Ain’t Necessarily So,”
“You Is My Woman Now” and
the hauntingly moving “Sum
mertime,” there were tears to t>e
seen in most parts of the theatre.
The actors who had crossed
the Atlantic to entertain us had
us sitting on the edges of our
seats, wide-eyed at the realiza
tion that here was collective
genius in action.
After the show I went back
stage with others who were
anxious to congratulate the cast.
I found Warfield trembling as I
have seen other great actors
tremble — not with nerves, but
with that exhausti^^^jMth
comes from tremendoHVendi-
ture of self.
“What did you think of Lmi-
don"s reception?” I asked him.
“A Wonderful tribute to
George Gershwin,” he said.
All the people in “Porgy and
Bess” are like that. Brilliant
Modest.
The Bamaagwato Cboaae A
New Cbieftein
’The people of the Bamang-
wato tribe, in the Bechuanaland
protectorate of Africa, still mut
ter their discontent over the
banishment of Seretse Khama,
their yoimg chieftain-elect, wbo
married an English girl, Ituth
that bombshell arrived. The ixtys | Williams, and was obliged to say
and girls wHo were destined to farewell to his native land be-
tle without his sword—the word
of God? No wonder so many of
us are fighting losing battles—
we don’t have our sword. With
out the word of God you can
not be steadfast in your hour
of trouble.
With these three spiritual
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Letters To The Editor
Editor, Carolina Tim*is Mr. L. E. Austin, Editor-
I wish to compliment twth you Usher,
and Mr. Stith on your stand in I Carolina Times
RALLY TO OUR COMMUNITY CHEST
This is the last week of the 1952 Communi
ty Chest Campaign for Durham and we sin
cerely trust that it will be the beat week. In
an effort to reach the desired goal, every
worker in the campaign is being called up
on to put forth a special effort bhd the
C.'ROLINA TIMES hopes that no loyal citi
zen of Durham will fail to do his part.
Durham must not fall short of the goal this
year. Dtirluun can and must come through. ■
It is with this in mind that we are making
this Bpceial appeal to the Negro citizau of
the dty to put forth their very best effort to
give MMtmlly to our Community Chert. We
would like to see every Negro man, woman
and child make some kind of donation. There
is an element of respectability and pride that
one feels when he knows that he has shared
in the responsibility of helping to support
the Bed Feather organizations of the com
munity.
So let’s make this last week one big grand
rush, let’s give until we feel the pinch, not
only because it is so sorely needed, but as a
the case of ’‘Alleged Negro tiea-
ders of Rocky Mount Vs. Arm
strong.” For intelligent people
to stoop low enough to dig up an
unfortunate event which oCcur-
ed in the life of a Negro during
or near Recmistruction seems to
me to be bu-d«iBg on depravi
ty.
Obviously the elder Mr. Arm
strong was not guilty of the
crime with which he was
charged and convicted, and it
seems to be an act of atonement
in the part of the wlilteS, who
knew the facts, to recommend
that the housing project bear his
name. Moreover the success of
his crildren bespeaks nothing
but a good family background.
It is pretty near miraculous
how such a large percentage of
Negroes in Rocky Mount own
their homes and drive luxuri
ous automobiles in spite of the
disunity that exists there.
“Keeping up with the Joneses,*'
conforms to our pattern of A-
merican Culture, but to destroy
the Joneses seems to be tbe ul.
timate aim of a lew of the Ne
groes in Rocky Mount.
The Armstrongs are one of
North Carolina’s most promi
nent families. They represent
the very best in our social, civic,
religious and educational circles,
and these facts cannot be denied
by their most ardent enemies.
They are, very definitely, an as
set. to the community in which
they live, and the members of
both races there should be dilli-
Durham, N. C.
My dear Mr. Austin:
I certainly want to commend
the editorial in the current issue
of your paper entitled "Much
Ado About Nothing” and I hope
you will accept my assurance
that as one of those who proba
bly precipitated this trouble that
I had no such thought in mind,
but was rather seeking to vindi
cate the name of an individual
who has made a distinct contri
bution to Rocky Mount and its
welfare, and whom the Com-
mttee knew had never taken a
dishonest dollar in his life. I
told Dr. Armstrong as much and
I regret exceedingly that The
Forum, a minority of whom did
not share my thinking.
I am attaching here a clipping
from my paper on the subject of
the need of a Negro cemetary
and I certainly would like to
join forces with that effort and
hope you will do the same for
4hem.
Yours very truly.
Josh L. Home
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Editor, “The Carolina Times"
Durham, If, C.
Dear Sir:
I note with increasing disgust
the all-out effort of “The Caro
lina Times” and certain other
Negro news papers to deliver the
Negro vote in November to John .October 12). But it appears that
dldate.
Such a prediction and such ef
forts to sell this confirmed ene
my of Negroes to the Negro
voters imputes to the said Negro
voters a degree of intelligence
indifinitely lower than that
which I am confident the ma
jority of them possess. It is
well known fact, which, “The
Carolina Times” surely will not
deny, that John Sparkman be
longs to the group of southern
Democratic congressmen who
have traditionally and uncom
promisingly fought and success
fully obstructed all measures
providing equality to Negroes
in enjoyment of the rights guar
anteed by the Constitution of the
United States to all of its citi
zens. It is also an indisputable
fact that under a democmtic ad
ministration those same soutii-
em democratic senators and re
presentatives exercise control
ling power over the policies of
the national government regard
less of who happens to be the
chief executive. No less a person
than Governor Stevenson, the
Democratic candidate for presi
dent speaking in Nashville,
Tenn. on October 11,“reminded
his audience a Republican vic
tory in November will sweep
from ppwer in Congress South
erners who hold ‘key positions’
in determining national and in
ternational policy.” (Page 1 of
“Durham Morning Herald” of
make “Porgy and Bess” the rage
of the town a few days later
were almost in tears that eve
ning.
They KNEW they had a won
derful story to tell in the show.
They were all but heartbroken
at the prospect of losing Alex
andre, who alone knows every
minimum of the difficult opera
tic score.
Prayers were answered. Com-
monsense won in the end, with a
patched-up arrangement that the
baton should be shared by Alex
andre and a British conductor.’
Thus was wonour satisfied . . .
So—it was on with the show.
cause of official action.
Seretse is happy with his
young wife and their baliy
daughter, but not as happy as he
would be if he were back lead
ing his people. Now his return
to the chieftancy is made even
more unlikely, despite many
supporters of his cause within
the tribe, by a new move to de
cide the “lawful succession.”
A conference of 100 Bamang-
wato leaders and headmen, said
to represent all sections of tribal
opinion, with the chiefs of all
other tribes in Bechuanaland,
has just concluded.
The meeting was held in a
As if to indicate how sorry wc
toniary kgotal-usually an open-
air meeting under^ the camel-
thom trees.
According to a statement is
sued after the discussion, the
conference made a unanimous
That appkuse^ waaimrt sym-
ithy. oart admiration nart ^ 0" November 10,
to nominate a new chief of the
English folk are that Alexandre
had been “insulted,” the first
night audience, among them
many Lords and ladies, rose and
applauded him for a full three
minutes when he appeared.
pathy, part admiration, part en^
couragement.
In volume' it was but a mere ®«*«f"Kwato hi the place of
Seretse.
suggestion of what thunderous
moments lay ahead that memor-
Chiefs of other tribes will be
able evening. Seldom hay there
been such wUd and generous re- «"cle, was
cepUon of an opera in a London
theatre 1 ** decision was made.
Ftom principals to piccanin- banished from
nles, the actors had the audience territory, after
at their feet when.flnan
tain fell jcently has he been allowed to
None can be singled out for
betog more brlUiant than the ^
rest. It was a tour de force of - ***
great acthig, full of soul, of, e V
yearning, of truth. I himself In exile for
Before us. In a make-beUeve h ®
world, were real people livtag ” ® “““"ent on the latest
real events on a wooden road in ^ replace him. But his
front of a canvas sky, , friends to London say: “He wiU
Leontyne Price as Bess, the Bwnangwato.”
dazzltog, tender, givtog and for- ^ V Problem which may weU
givtog, wayward girt — how she «lr«natic conseouences . .
lived out there in front. William
Warfield, the crippled yet spir
itually dynamic Porgy. How he
loved.
consequences
Ten Cows — One Wife
In- Lwidon this week, fresh
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"KEEP MOVIN !"
HtSKT
tribute to the fine group of Durham citizens
who are heading the 1952 Community Chest | ^ ^ protection of their
Campaign. | name.
I Yours truly.
I Walter B. Nivens
Sparkman of Alabama.’I note
also the highly presumptions
prediction in this week’s issue
of “The Carolina Times” that
95 percent of the Negro vote in
North Carolina will go to the
ticket on which John Sparkman
appears as vice-presidential can-
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