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r AQB TWO THE CAROLINA TtMKS SATURDAY, NOV. lit, 1952 €Ii«Ca' Published Every Saturday By THE CAROLINA TIMES PUBLISHING CO. 518 East Pettigrew Street Durham, N. C. Phones: 5-8873 — 5-0671 — 3-7871 Member National Negro Preaa As$ociation VOLUME 30—NUMBER 42 SATURDAY, NOV. 1st, 1952 It to abMlately ImpoMlkle for the CAROLINA TIMES to (iianintee the exaet time of pnkllea Uoa or loeatioa in the paper of oaaolleited artlelei. but will itrlve to confonn with the wiahea of tU readlBff poblic m near ai la hnmanly poarfble. Entered a Second Claai matter at the Poat O fflcca at Durham, North Carolina nnder the aet •f March S, 1ST9. National Adverttolnf Bepreaentatlve Inter atate United Newspapen, 545 Fifth ATenne, New York 17, New York. Branch Office: S Eaat Jaekson Bonleviird, Chicago, ni. L. E. AUSTIN ALEXANDER BARNES Editor and Publisher . Manacinc Editor M. B. HUDSON Business Manager D. W. STITH - Advertising Manager 6 Months 1 Year SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 3 Years ^.QO Foreign Countries : $9.00 Per Year $4.00 The Negro Vote In The 1952 Election (Continued from Page One) have repudiated their party’s nominee for president and are supporting the Republican nominee is evidence that they will have {X)werful influence with him, even if by remote control. Senator Robert A. Taft is the acknowl edged boK of the Republican party, and ac cording to a report on “How They Stand On Civil Rights,” issued by the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, has voted against every piece of Civil Rights legislation presented to the Eighty- Second Congress. In spite of this, there are some Negroes, even in the South where the sting of racial discrimination is most pa^ ful, who are supporting the Republican ticket. The CAROLINA TIMES opposes the Re publican ticket and platform. It does so be cause it firmly believes that a Republican vietory on November 4 would destroy all the gains we have made along the lines of Civil Rights, deliver the control of the nation into the hands of the enemies of the Negro and labor and destroy all progressive legislation that has given some measure of human dignity to the common man. The constant teaming up of the Republican Old Guard in the Senate with Dixiecrat Senators to defeat every piece of Civil Rights legislation before and during the Eighty- Second Congress is sufficient evidence as to what the Negro and other minorities will face once the Republican Party comes to power. So it is with this in mind that we call up on Negroes everywhere to vote on Novem ber 4 as never before. Again we call you from the classrooms, the fields, the offices, the kitchens, the mines, the tunnels and ev ery conceivable walk of life, to go to the polls on Tuesday, November 4 and vote for the National Democratic ticket. Let nothing stop you. Upon your vote may hang the destiny of civilization, the fate of the world and the future of your race. Whatever you do on next Tuesday, be sure to vote. The Vacancy On The Qty Board Of Education The transfer' of the Rev. Millard C. Dunn, Methodist minister and member of the Dur ham City Board of Education, to Wilming ton, leaves a vacancy on the Board and creates an emergency at a time when quick action and quick but profound thinking are necessary. That the vacancy has been created on the eve of an election, when a $4 million school bond issue is at stake, pres ents only one of two courses for the Durham City Council, that has the job of naming a successor to Rev. Dunn, to pursue. It can call a special session of the CounciLand name, a person to fill the vacancy before the elec tion or it can wait until after the election and do so. Whatever course the Council pursues it calls for quick and careful think ing. Whatever action the Council takes, we would like to propose that a Negro be ap pointed to fill the vacancy created by the transfer of Rev. Dunn to Wilmington. The reasons for such an appointment are plainly in evidence and important. A majority of them have been discussed over and over againr before the Council, in private and in the public press and we see no need to re peat all of them again. We believe that even a majority of its members are now of the opinion that a more understandable course for all the citizens of Durham can be pursued if Negroes, whose children con stitute 42 per cent of the school population, are given representation on a Board that has to do with shaping their educational program. Negroes in Durham prefer to work with the City Council, the Board of Education and other policy making bodies, rather than work against them. To work with them, however, necessitates having some one on the inside where understanding and firsthand knowl edge of what is going on may be obtained, rather than standing on the outside where it is necessary to guess just what the inten tions of the Board of Education are, espec ially as they pertain to Negroes. Although the Committee on Negro Affairs has already voted to support the $4 million school bond issue, we are of the opinion that the task of doing so would be made much easier if the City Council would appoint a Negro to the Board before the-election or give assurance that when the vacancy is filled that a Netfro will filHt. For, in spite of the Committee’s approval of the bond issue, there are many Negro voters who have little enthusiasm for it due to the sim ple reason that they see in it another case of taxation without representation. They are not fully satisfied with allocation of funds to the Negro schools of the county where conditions are overcrowded, bus transporta tion is poor and other facilities are far short of what obtain in the white schools. In fact, there are many Negroes who are of the opinion that there is little hope of equalizing the white and Negro schools of the county until federal court action is resorted to. We think, however, that at least one more resort to arbitration ought to be sought as a means of bringing about a satisfactory ad justment before the courts are resorted to. Although the position of membership on the County Board of Education is elective, rather than appointive, as in the city, its members could give assurance that they will look with favor on the election of a Negro to the Board and that until such time comes that they will see to it that the most of the money provided for county schools out of the bond issue will go to lessen the inequali ties now existing between white and Negro schools. 1 Just A Few Of The World's Headaches. ff oV'OPPo PEACE r COUM •V ATOM \ the efforts on the part of the President and other progressive leaders of the nation to prove to the overwhelming millions of colored people of the world that Democracy is not for whites only, but for all people. This newspaper does not believe that this nation can sell Democracy to the peoples of the world so long as any segment of it supports the idea before their very eyes that we here at home are unwilling to prac tice what we preach. The CAROLINA TIMES stands fully behind the President and the Democratic Party which in our hum ble judgement has the better program for extending civil rights to all the people, re gardless of race, creed or color. Democracy For All The People The full page advertisement for Eisen- ttuwer carried in the Durham Morning Herald Monday, October 27, ought to be enough to force every respectable Negro to vote the Democratic national ticket if not every respectable white man. How sensible Negroes can stomach any presidential candid date, either on the Democratic or Republican ticket, who will accept the support of such Royal, is a reactionary and opposed to Civil Rights. If Joe Stalin had planned that page ad- vertis^meht, published in the Herald on last Monday, to prove to the colored people of the world, who constitute two-thirds of the earth’s population, that civil rights are for white people only he could not have done a better job. We would like to suggest that a federal investigation of Kenneth Royal, Jr., and his group be made immediately to determine whether or not they do not have ’onnections with Russia or some other Com- ist state.. stupid actions of some southerners in laces today, are enough to make us if there is not a segment of them who iberately opposed to IDemocracy in t sense. Many of these people, in our life and death* struggle to halt h of Communism in the world, are verything in their power to defeat Apologia kognito In an editorial of our issue of October 18, we referred to the fight which we waged over 20 years ago to have a new school building erected in the Lyon Park sectipn of the city. No sooner had the editorial hit the air than one very prominent man of this city took ua to task and called our attention to the fact that he was the one who slngiehandedly obtained the school building In Lyon Park and not the CAROLINA TIMES. Now It Is so seldom that we have time to lay claim to even as sisting in any achievement for Negroes In Durham that we did not know that should we, in passing slip up, and mention at least one of them in our struggle to save another Negro school for Durhai^ that any one of our readers would deny us that comfort or plea sure. “ , The CAROLINA TIMES does not have time to argue in these columns who, where. w*»a* or how come the Lyon Park School. The fact that it is where it is and doing a good Job to serve the people of the community in which it is located is the only thtog that we consider important. Frankly, at first we looked upon the re marks as a friendly gesture and did not seri ously consider the upbraiding of this parti cular reader of ours until he accosted us the second time in a House of God and pro ceeded to emphasize his contentions with language unbecoming a gentleman, even in the public streets, to say nothing about a place of worship. Professional ethics and a desire on our part to have the people, and especially the children of the community, state and na tion, retain this man in their rontiimed high esteem and good graces prtfblbits ns from mentioning his name now or forever In con nection with this matter. There will be no further discussion of it on onr part in theae columns. If in the |m^~25 years there Is any reader of ours anywhere whose imagination possesses so much rubber that he can visualiie a fight for a Negro school building going on in the very city in which the CAROLINA TIMES is domiciled without this newspaper being In the forefront of such a stmggle, we beg him to forward us his photograph and offer hi™ the opportunity to telegraph, telephone or cable- graph us, collect, a written account on how he got that way. Finally, we offer here and now oar sincere apology to onr reader who got the sehool singlehandedely In Lyon Park. It was a most gigantic accomplishment and we commend him for it and apologise to him here and now for our having the gaul to lay claim to any thing in Durham but heartaches, restlcflB nights, embarrassment, repudiation, criticism and the lack of moral and financial support so generously extended thin newspaper by some of the Negro business Institutions In Dur ham. Spiritual Insight By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND WmtOTf Mount Gilead BaptUt CImrdi “SHAREVG m EVnRMITIES” -‘WE...STRONG OUGHT BEAR THE INFIRMITIES OF THE WEAK....“Rom.l5:I Jesus calls us to share com passionately in the infirmities of the weak. Any little runt can sit in condemnation and judgement. It talces a great soul to be loving and compassionate in the midst of weakness. Any coward can give the struggling weakling a kick down liill. Such littleness requires neither courage nor strength. We must possess the love of God to share in the in firmities of the weak. Vicious condemnation does not help a weak • brother. A weak brother needs a loving and a helping hand. He needs the magic touch of love. A weak brother needs someone to share the burden of his infirmity. H is alarming to note the num ber ^_of Old Testament Chris tians: people who believe in the vengeance, vindictiveness and cruelty of the iLaw. The Christ and his Gospel, on the other hand, calls for understanding, compassion and love. The heart of Christs message is “love one another”. The beauty and power of the New Testament, therefore, is to help rather than crush a weak and struggling brother or sister. Christ commands you to use your srength to help a weak and struggling brother. You were made strong by the power of God to share the infirmity of the weak. How many times have we seen furious Christians wanting to kill rather than to save a brother. Jesus never rushed in to condemn. He was ever ready to show love in the midst of human weakness. He tried to make contact with the good that was left in the worst of human beings. This message of loving compassion needs re emphasis among us. Let us pray to God to develop a passion for love rather than trigger-happy condemnation. Love bids us to heal rather than to woundl A cruel World has not learned the wisdom of Divine love. When we leam the healing power of love life will be beauti ful. There will be less tears. Heartaches will be reduced when we learn the beauty and power of love amid human In firmities. Suffering and sickness will be reduced when we leam to bear the infirmities of the weak. The national decay of the home will be arrested when love takes its rightful place and we recognize that...“WE are not to please ourselves...”. When we know that someone cares, life takes on a new out look. Unnumbered souls are crushed beneath their burdens because they feel that no one cares. Had someone shared and cared, life would have been far different. Your sharing of an infirmity may save someone. Your word may save a life. Your loving act may save from defeat and failure. Let us make our 'spiritual strength felt in the midst of infirmity. . Let us not go around with the Pharisaic air saying; I thank God I am not as other men. Why? WE who claim strength are called ttf bear the Infirmities of the weak and struggling fel low creatures. • Are you strong in the Lord? You are not to parade your strength around in self rightoui- ness. The Christ commands a loving sharing of the infirmities of the weak. WITHIN And AMONG Alfred F. Andersen I iss!ssssssss::sfsm Dear fellow seekers...In point ing out the inherent limitations of the national territorial state we have perliaps Ijecome un justly critical. Not that what was said isn’t true, but that our emphasis should perhaps have been on the more positive truth which is our liigher loyalty. It has l)een suggested here that in order to remain true to the sa- cre^dness in all things we must refuse to participate in that which stunts the growth of said sacredness. This means con scientious objection....to partici pation in modern war, to par ticipating in the causes of war. It means openly disregarding laws of the existing government out of faithfulness to the ideal government^ Hundreds have gone to prison for refusing to participate in modem militar ism and himdreds of others have courted prison by openly vio lating what they consider to be immoral laws. An example of these latter are those who rpfuse to pay the percentage of income- tax which goes for military pur poses (over 80 per cent). (See The Peacemaker, editorial ofBce, 502 High St., Yellow Springs, Ohio.) But we need also to recognize that we have in this country a great spiritual foundation in the spirit of the Declaration of In dependence, and to some extent in that of the Constitution itself. There is some justice in the courts, some education in the schools, some democracy in the government, etc. In addition to the military approach to inter national relations there is the participation In the United Na tions (wherein lies no little hope) and the point Four Pro gram for aiding the undeveloped areas of the world. In fact, the Fundamental Education ap proach used in this program is the most hopeful development in education since Progressive Education. Further, it has no little resemblance to thie Basic Education Program initiated by Gandhi and carried on by his associates in India today. Both are designed to weave education around meeting the basic needs of living (food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, fellowship, creative work) by exploring and work ing with the basic natural re sources'available (material and spiritual). The principle differ ence between the two approach es is this: In Basic Education all activity is thought of as related to that Great Spirit and^ Great Community of Souls wherein all life “lives, moves and has Its being”. In Fundamental Educa tion, however, Religion and Ethics is only considered as one of the needs, and nothing is said about the baeic spiritual motivation for the program, al though there is necessarily something spiritual implicit in the whole approach. This we must grant and praise, but with out the basic spiritual heritage so deep-rooted in India I fear that Fundamental Education and the Point Four Program will fall into crippling frustra tion. (attempting to follow & form without vmderstanding the spirit which justifies it). In practice, I suspect that it-is the people in ‘‘undeveloped” areas who will give the lessons in-fundamentals of life and will show the would-be educators that the principle difference l>e- tween people is in what they can and cannot conscientimuly do “to gain the whole world” at the expense of the sacredness in life. There is much good in govern ment, in church, in school, and we must aclcnowledge whatever good we find there. Not only must we acknowledge it, but en courage it and develop it to the point where it can redeem the frame in which it sets. But we must do more than encourage the good in others. We must generate some of our own. We must start now to demonstrate through action that texture of life which we find lacking in existing culture. Where shall we begin to do this when the difficulties are so “basic”? Where else but with Basic Education? For Basic Education includes simultaneous basic living. We need to ap proach life afresh, to get a first hand feel for its essential nature and its essential values. We, need to get together in small groups to work for and 'to discuss this. Every neighborhood or small community has the potential for such a group. There is al ways a first step that can be taken; if not in an existing neighborhood (or community) then by joining with kindred spirits in setting up a communi ty. Both these things have been done with varjring success in this country. For information about the former I refer you to Community Service Inc., Yellow Springs, Ohio; and for the latter to Macedonia Cooperative Com munity in Clarkesville, Georgia. In each the effort is directed toward developing that spiri tual fabric called “community”, the essence of democracy and the foundation for a peaceful and creative society. With all the mis-steps, with all the frustrations, life goes on; for in every seed of sacredness which is within are “many Mansions”; and ever new ways are being found to bring them to flower am i kindred spirits. = HAVE you I RCOISTEREC’ ^ IT IS LATER Than you THINK' $100,000 in Awards to Go to Citizens Who Speak Up for Freedom Valley Forge, Pa. —Fresdoms Foundation announced today its fourth annual $100,000 awards program for public, prlTmta and parodiial soho^ and llftMn cat*- forlas ol awards tor tba gtnaral publie. The program wHI follow tbs pattam of th« first three jrears o operation and 88S IndlTiduals and organizations will rvcalv* special caA grants honor medals, and certiflcatas of merit, though all expense trips to Valley Forge and historic awHiroas are er«d to SOO teachers and students Cram 100 schools wbose programs on teach ing the fundamentals of the Amer ican Way ot lile are Judged for tiv honota. These sdiools and one hundred other top selected schools wlU r«- ceiv* the valuMile ‘‘IVeedom li brary,** together with ft* fVnind*- tlon’s George Washington Honor BledaL The 833 awards will be offered to persons or groups in aH walks of life who. In their own way, haT* helped to bring about a better understandbig of our free waj of life. Entries may be made by any American in the following IS dif ferent categories:. 0«n«nl CatMOTj > AdvtrUiliis An^lcu ' Cartoons ; ? CoU«(« Campu Prograau Communl^ Programi SSiSRRt KmplojTM PubUeatlona ■f Eniyt , £ f Magutn* Arttelaa | k . Mouon Plcturei V' ; Photocraplu with Captlooa I Public Addrtma i i % Radio ProfTaaia H ■/ Samoni f juijlo % Talavlflon Profmna dosing data for aomlnatloiu Is NoTember Uth, 19SS The general category covers material not included in other classifications. Eligible are poems, pageants, songs, slide films, SSmm films, publlcaticns by union or management organizations, and special events^n the genaral«at«- gory there wlU be three awards of |1,000 eadi and fifty awards of. 1100 eacli, plus honor medals and csrtiflcates. One award of 91,000 and twenty awards of $100 each, pltu honor medals and certifleatM will b« made in the following categories: Magazine articles, college campus program^ cartoons, editorialsy ccmmnni^ programs, essays, pho tographs with captions, p^llo ad dresses and sermons. Award reci- pienti in all other categories wlU recatre honor medal awards only. Hu fteedoms IVnindation dia^ tar provtdas for the Judging at an antrias br a dtotlngtishad non partisan awards jury composed of state snprema court Jurhrts and execntl're officers of patriot mili- tax7, and service organisations. Non-Tottng Gh^irmsn of the 190S awards Jury te Dr. Albert C, Jacobs^ Chimcellor of the Uni versity of Denver. Kenneth D. Wdls Is president of Freedoms Foundation. The awards Jury wHI meet at Valley Forge during the first tw« weeks of Decenri>er and make their selections. All Judging Is based on the credo of the American Way of Life^ shows the American Way of Life based on a funda mental belief in God, Constitu tional Government Designed to serve the people, and an in^rislble bundle of p^tlcal and economic rights designed to protect the dig nity of the IndivlduaL Ifotries for award have been completed or released after No> vember 1st, 1051, and postmarked not later than the closing date, November 11th, 19B3. Entries should include a copy ot the ma terial nominated; the category in which it is enter^; the name and address of tha person who pre pared the material or the name and address of the individual making the nomination. Nomina tions must be filed by Armistice Day, November 11th, 19S2.
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