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rACff two m CABOLINA SAftJEDAIf, r«B. 14. Itw ChtCat^sfiiitfS )pi»lriTwu»«>3tTg7f PubMtad Every Saturday By THE CAROLINA TIMES PUBLISHING CO. *5'.n Bast Pettigrew Street Durham, N. C Phone*: M873 — 5-0671 — 3-7871 Member National Negro Prena Auociatkm "THE SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION" VOLUME 30—NUMBER 5 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1953 It U absolutely impossible for the CAROLINA TIMES to guarantee the exact time of publication or location in the paper of unsolicited articles, but will strive to conform toUh the wishes of its reading public as near as i« humanly possible. • Entered as See«nd CU« nutter mt tke Poat Offices at Durham, North CaroUaa under the met of BUrch S, 1S7>. Nattonai Advertlstnc Representative Intentate United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New Toric. Branch Office: 5 East Jaekson Boulevard, Chicaco. Illinois. L. E. AUSTIN - - Editor and Publiiher ADA HANNAR . ALEXANDER BAHNES Managing Editor M. B. HUDSON i ^ City Editor Business Manager MONTHS 1 TEAK — SUBSCBIPT10N RATES: $2.a0 FOREIGN COUNTIUES Per Year f4.M -$M# 3 YEARS M.M STATE'S DILEMMA One of the thorniest dilemmas faced by the General Assembly is the result of a felony committed by an Assembly in the past, but tressed by other Assemblies and later com pounded by State officials. The original felony was the separation of Negro and white pupils. It was buttressed by legal sanction it received when laws were passed requiring segregation. The felony was further compounded by the action of State and local school officials who made such un equal disbursements of school funds that most Negro schools reached a state of almost unbelievable inferiority. Now, the General Assembly and many lo cal school boards face the alternative of hav ing to spend staggering sums to equalize Ne gro schools in a relatively short period, or of submitting to integration. The dilemma becomes very thorny when one considers the possibility that the Su preme Court may rule that Negro schools must be equalized within a certain period of time or else Negro students must be ad mitted to white schools. This possibility places the State in a very uncomfortable position. In the first place, it is estimated by state officials that it would take three hundred million dollars ($300,- 000,000) to equalize the secondary schools and colleges- for Negroes. W. H. Ferguson, director of the Negro division of education for the State department of Public Instruc tion, estimated that two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) would have to be spent en Negfo aehoolB alone bring them up to the level of white schools. Former Governor Kerr Scott stated last siitnmer that it would "run upwards to one hundred mil lion” ($100,000,000) to equalize the Negro colleges. This means that no money could be spent on white schools until three hun dred ipillion had gone into the Negro schools. Now, over a period of several years, it is conceivable that the State, with great sacri fice, may be able to assume this staggering economic burden. But, in the second place, will the Supreme Court allow a period of “several years” for the State to equalize its schools? Will the citizens of North Carolina be willing to make such a sacrifice to main tain segregation? In its attempts to unlock itself from the dilemma, the General Assembly appears to have adopted a “wait and see” policy, to wait and see what the Supreme Court actually decides. The Assembly appears to want the State to be financially able to pay for equalization in a few years if the Coui^ al lows that alternative. It is reluctant to make any cash outlays to start to bring, in a very small way, the Negro schools up to the level of the white schools. Therefore, it re fused to grant money for permanent im provements to any of the State schools. It does not want the State to be caught in the position of having exhausts its financial re courses while only making a fraction of a step toward equalizing the schools and then have the Supreme Court give them an al ternative of equalizing the schools in a short time or of submitting to integration. The State wishes to be in a position to take ad vantage of the possibility of the Court’s al lowing them to equalize in a short period. But, even in this approach, there arisen knotty problems. What about the graduate program at North Carolina College, already established in name, which cannot wait for financial support if it is to serve its purpose. The purpose of the program, just for the record, is to reduce the demand by Negroes for admission to the University of North Carolina. In the beginning, when this plan of a graduate program was thought of for North Carolina College, it was publicly ad mitted by UNC officials that more money was needed to operate it and UNC officials promised to use their influenoe to secure the money. If this money is held up by the Assembly in ojder to wait on the Supreme Court's ruling, N€C^ graduate program ean- not operate aad the demand by Negroes for training at UNC will not be reduced at all. There are so many uncertainities about the whole situation that it appears to be hopelessly soluble short of integration. First, it is questionable whether, even if the State does hold its money until the Court makes a decision, it could get up the three hundred million-estimated necessary to equalize the schools in a time period allowed by the Court. Second, it is questionable if the citi zens of North Carolina, if they knew how much money 'would have to be spent on Ne gro schools alone, would want to keep seg- gregation. Truly, it is ironic that the men who fash ioned the laws designed to keep Negroes in a second class position have trapped their sons very tightly in a web of their own weaving. sentimental aspect. We would have them think about the physical aspect of the heart, the body’s mpst vital organ. We would have them consider the rigors and stresses to which this organ is constantly exposed and consider the toll in lives which is exacted an nually through heart diseases. For obvious reasons. Science has not been able to make advancements in our knowledge about conditions of the heart and heart dis eases as cheaply and as easily as they have for other less vital organs. In view of this fact then, quite a bit of money is needed for research to determine causes of heart dis eases and find remedies for them. A drive for funds is being conducted in Durham and Orange County throughout this month to help raise the money to enable Sci ence to develop remedies against heart dis eases. The goal for these two counties is $10,000. This week, the week of Valentine’s Day, has been set aside as “heart week,” It behooves us to remember the work that our hearts have to perform while we are buying tokens of affection for our loved ones for Valentine’s Day and to put aside a liberal contribution for the fund drive. For almost every other death in this country is caused by heart disease. Spiritual Insight "The Tragic Question" ^ By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church “...Judas Iscariot said unto them...What will you give me., and I will deliver him unto you...?”Matt.^6:14-15. Judas shall stand forever as a sellfish creature unmoved by the in-rushing floodtide of Di- traglc question of the ages:.. “WHAT WILL YE GIVE ME.... AND I WILL DELIVER HIM UNTO YOU..?” Judas betrayed the friendship of the master. He symbolizes the lowest and the meanest in human nature. He bespeaks the depth to which man tiie sinful creature can de ed his name that no mother dare scend. He symbolizes treachery. THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN RUSSIA Daily newspaper reports being circulated in this country are to the effect that under Communism, the Jews in Russia are under going suffering similar to that imposed on the Jews of Germany by Hitler prior to and during World World War II. If the reports -«re true, the Russians will in the end reap the same fate as that of Germany that is still paying the price of trying to exterminate the Jewish people by mass murder and oth er beastly crimes. The laws of God and man are opposed to murder, whether it be of an individual or an entire race. It, therefore, doth appear that he who sets out to take his brother’s life hath embarked upon a treacherous and stormy sea. Cast upon its shores are just about as many human hulks of murderers as those of the murdered. The Jewish people have through the ages always been able to outlive their adversaries. Attempting to exterminate or evto per secute the Jewish people will gain no friends for Russia, to say nothing of followers, among Negroes in America. Of all the peo ple on earth the Jews have most always dealt Negroes a fair hand. It is very rare to find one of them steeped in race prejudice or hatred to such an extent that he is un willing to give some semblance of fairness. If the reports now being circulated about the persecution of Jews in Russia are ever proved to be more than propaganda. Com munism is subject to lose what few Negro advocates or sympathizers it has in Amer ica. For even they will reason that once the persecution of any people is allowed to go unchallenged, the lives and property of all people are in danger. Once racial persecu tion becomes rampant in Russia oranywhere else, it will know no limits and is bound to exact its toll of the strong as well as the weak. HEART WEEK On February 14, most Americans think about the heart in a rather sentimental, romantic way. For February 14, Saturday, is Valentine’s Day, and it is the custom for sweetheart -and loved-ones to exchange tokens of their “feelings of heart” for each other. On this particular •Valentine’s Day and indeed, throughout the rest of the month of February, we would have Americans think about the heart from a very un deceit and betrayal. He so stain- call her new born son Judas. What was behind that dastardly and cowardly act? Why would Judas offer for thirty pieces of silver the noblest character to grace this sinful human scene? Wa» Jwiag^ moved -by hatred, resentment, fear, disappoint ment or misunderstanding? Was he playing it smart to salvage something from this so called kingdom of love? Judas never gave an answer. One thing we do know Judas did ask the fatal and tragic question of the High Priests: ..’’WHAT WILL YE GIVE..AND I WILL DELIVER HIM UNTO YOU...?” WASHINGTON AN^ ^ SMALL BUSINESS More and more evsnts are proving the need tor a revamping of the system for enforcement the nation’s anti-trust laws. * • * In two major cssea, the oO CMS and the Dnpont oaae pvog- ren liat been dellberaiely slewed down to give the new Administra tion an oppor-| portunity to re-i view the cssei and decide what It wishes to do In the! matteri. • * * This is espe-j clally confus ing in the oil company easel which is a C. W. Harder criminal action. Five major oil companies are charged with con spiring to create and maintain a worldwide petroleum cartel. • * * The situation I* similar to that which wonld prevail if all crimliul cases pending In state courts would be delayed natil a new governor had a chance to look them over. * o * TI'.uc, for some peculiar reason, the traditional American princi ple of impartial justice, impar tially administered, is suspended in anti-trust violation cases. • • * It also appears that even Ftfi- eral Judges resept the unortho dox procedure that crops op. * * * Judge James Kirkland has set March 16 as the last date that the oil companies have to pro duce documents pertaining to their foreign operations or ade quate reasons why they cannot produce them, or face conteiilpt charges. The time was extended, the court said to give the new Administration time to make a decision on the case. This came after the National Security Coun cil held that disclosure of tho foreign dealings of the American (g) Nalloaal ol lfMtop«adiot Bo>ian By C. WILSON HARDER oil companies might be harmful to the national interests. • * * However, Judge Kirkland has ea^essed deabt of any danger to ■atlonal seonrlty in disclosure of tlie dooaments. * * * Earlier in the Dupont case, the statement was made in Federal court that a possibility existed that the new Administration might want to stop the case. • * * Bat It Is Interesting to realise that these cases are prepared laboriously by career attorneys In the Department of Jnstlce. • • * Yet a politically appointed At torney General, «^o in turn ap points the Assistant Attorney Generals including the one in charge of the anti-trust division, can without the public having any recourse, throw out a case that has taken years to prepare. * • * This Id tom resnits in a two edged weapon that can be nsed as a poHtioal weapon. Cases which should be tried can be dropped, or cases can be insti- tnted against firms for purposes of harassment where .the fonnda- tlon for a cue docs not exist. • • « American legal procedure Is supposed to be impersonal. • * * That is why independent bosl- nessmen all over the nation are asking Congress to make it im possible for the proseontlon of anti-tmst cases to be affected by political ohanges. Even thongh political factors are aot intro duced In present pending cases, an unhealthy., condition exists when the law makes it possible for many people to bdieve that a ohange of adntlnistration win have an affect. It is hoped (hat tile position of heading the antl- tmst division of the Department of Jmtloe will be made a per^ maaent one, flHed by a oompe- tont career attorney. WITHIN And AMONG Alfred F. Andersen A study of man's nature re veals something of the Judas po tentially in every human being. There is the highest depths of love and the darkest depths of sin and selfishness in every one of us humans. In realistic hones ty we must recogaoA this. Un-4, moved by the nobler things of life we may descend into the darkest depths of blind passion where Judas stood in that de cisive moment. Man’s unredeem ed nature may lead into the dark abyss of selfishness and greed. A greed that knows no compassion, self-denial nor ten derness of Divine Love. In an age in which man seeks a false security we may be tempted to ask with Judas: “WHAT WILL YOU GIVE ME?” Many of us are asking everyday; Wliat’s in it for me? Some of us will be tray our trusted friend for the right price or for the simple satisfaction of revengef\ilness. Judas sold his trusted friend for thirty pieces of silver. I have been betrayed. I have seen others betrayed! It must have been an agonizing moment when Judas came through the dark ness with the enemies of Jesus that night and betrayed him with a kiss. Caught in the grip of dark and sinful passions many of us betray pur trusted friends. Re member there is no peace for such a mean and ignoble crea ture! Judas tietrayed Jesus for he never learned the lesson of self- denial. Judas never learned this bedrock teaching of the King dom of love. Have you learned this lesson? The true spirit of Jesus never gripped his soul. The power of Divine faith and love never possessed Judas. Thus did Judtis asked tljie fatal question:."WHAT WILL YE GIVE ME.?” Remember, my friend, that the seeming sweetness of evil quickly turned into a bitter gall. Thus did Judas ask the ^atal turn bitter in our mouths. The mean and ignoble deed destroy ed what little peace he might have had. What a sad picture. Judas is left in the darkness of isolation and sin. Cut off from fellowsliip with God and man. When you get your dirty thirty pieces of silver there is no peace nor , rest for you. Where is his security? It is lost in the*^dark- ness of his awful sin. Instead of the silver becoming a GAIN IT BECAME A STAIN. A stain for Dear fellow seekers Last week we posed the di lemma of our times: how to take a responsible attitude toward evil and aggression in the world without ourselves getting in volved in the evil-doing. Then we posed the question: “What is dilemma anyway, and how do we meet dilemma in our lives?” The answer seems to me quite obvious. Isn’t dilemma and con fusion an indication that one is over extended, “over one’s head” so to speak. It is an indica tion that we have “bitten off more than we can chew”, thfct we have too much power in por- portion to our spiritual resources to use it wisely and morally; that we have left too far beiiind the “home base” of life? The treat ment seems Just as obvious: First, to slow down, to “pull in our horns”, to maneuver for per spective. If one level of life spreads us too thin the moriU so lution is to take a humbler role, a role we can handle and handle right. After &U, what’s the use of doing a thing unless one can do it right? Dilemma means we need to humble ourselves, to melt away our false and sophis ticated pride, to step out of the inappropriate role of trying to go alone what requires the pro- foundest spiritual roots and up lift. But the answer comes back, “What of the evil iii the world? What of the aggression in Korea and the poor people within the Iron Curtain, etc. What about the minority groups struggling for equality in a nominal de mocracy?” Yea the evil in the world seems endless; how can we rest until it is cut out and thrown into the fire?...And all this is true. So we place it be side our own limitations and try to reconcile the two. But this requires stopping at least long enough to consider and to take stock on tiiis preUminary level. Note here that-the kind of “stopping” advocated is not the do-nothing kind; rather the soul- searching kind. When we do this, when we see still more clearly the undeniable facts, both of the tremendous evil and qur tremendous inadequacy to defend the threatened good with out adding our own variety of evil in the process....we see the need for what the religionists have called “faith”, that the scientist would call “hypothe sis" and which by either name means committnenf. That is, we all make moral sense, be moral ly reconcilable, is if there is a moral influence far greater than we working on the problem (of evil). The only morally promising hypothesis is the one which has a Moral Influence working at the point of con science on the evil doers (we- science on the evil doers (we them; allowing ^lem tremen dous freedoiA to be sure, but standing ready to act when they go too far. How does this Moral Influence act on the evildoer? By melting away his conviction, by throwing him into confusion and dilemma, and by ultimately (if he be stubborn) into impo tent insanity or death. Call this f^th if you will. But it is not blind faith; rather it is a morally required faith, a morally re quired hypothesis to which we must forthwith morally commlt- ourselves to testing in our lives. And how do we then test this morally required hypothesis? How do we make our commit ment real? First, by a prayer of identification and reverence to ward the hypothecated Moral Influence, by seeking to become integrated with its program and spirit, however small a role one is worthy to play. Then we prayerfully ask (and our own souls have the answer), “What and how much can I do and do right? What is my appropriate level in lieu of my limited spiri tual resources? As this is worked out (a long process) we gradual ly move out again into life’s stream; graduia}ly the thrill and confidence of life returns and everything is seen anew as in a rebirth. New values are appa rent; new hopes rise up; unre cognized stepping stones and pathways loom evident. The resurrection! But with such a re birth, as it unfolds gradually, comes simultaneously the bec koning and demands of previous involvements and associatiotls. Then -each of these must be inspected in turn in the light of the new moral perspective. And where they conflict with this perspective they mu^ be disso ciated from as doing more harm than good from the total point of view, as we see it. But we must proceed as we see it, only being concerned that we see clearly and with unforced conviction, that we feel the gentle nudge of the Overall Moral Influence by which we know our task, the part of the total picture that we realize that the only way it can can do and do right! Hampton To Serve As Host To More Than 150 Delegates To National UNCF Meet NEW YORK More than 150 delegates re presenting 75,000 graduates and former students from 31 member United Negro Colleges, will at tend the Seventh Annual Con ference of the National Council of UNCF Altnnni at Hampton Institute in Virginia, on Feb. 13 ^nd 14, it was announced at Fund headquarters by Randall L. Tyus, national UNCF Field Director. Tyus said the delegates will include presidents of UNCF Alumni Associations and Inter- Alumni Councils and Alumni secretaries from 55 cities, who are planning to discuss plans for alumni participation In the Fund’s forthcoming tenth annual appeal. Playing host to the group will be Dr. Alonzo G. Moron, Hamp- .ton Institute president, W. Bar ton Beatty, the college’s Public Relations Director and Lorexo White, Alumni secretary of the institution, one of the Fund’s participating colleges. “The Challenge of the United Negro College Fund and the Alumni of Thirty-one Participa ting Colleges”, will be the theme of the 1953^ Conference. Speak ers will Include Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president, Atlanta U., also affiliated with the Fund; James E. Stamps, founding president. National Council of program on. Friday, February 13, when the Hampton Institute Choir under the direction of Dr. Henry N. Switten will sing at the public meeting and at the All-Campus Assembly. The, program of the National Council of UNCF Alumni in cludes encouragement of young people to take fullest advantage of higher educational opportu nities and the stimulation of A- lumni interest in their Alma Maters on a year-round basis, as well as the organization of their support during the UNCF annual campaigns in'their behalf. National Council officers in clude Dr. Connie Y. Odom of Austin, Texas, president; Mrs. Ethel M.' Johnson of New York, first vice-president; Atty. Willi am N. Lovelace of Cincinnati, second vice-president; Mrs. Leo na J. Williams of Chicago, third vice president; Mrs. Josephine D. Murphy of Atlanta, secretary; Walter Washington of Utica, Miss., assistant secretary; and John B. Dickerson, Daytona Beach, Fla., treasurer. Two Bennett Girls See UN GREENSBORO Two Bennett College students UNCT Alumni; and W. J. Trent, have jurt returned from a nine- jr., executive director of the (jgy study tour of the United Na- United Negro College Fund. Hons Organization in New York Delegates to the Conference will (^ty and federal government get a chance to address meetings' operations In Washington, D. C. during the panel discussions. | Bennett studenU Janice De- One of the highlights of the Joie, of New Orleans, La., and Conference will be a musical Qioria Jenkins, of Hartford, I Conn., made the study tour his name and his soul!! | while attending the Christian -The secret of great and noble Citizenship Seminar For Stu> living is not what will you give dents held in New York on Feb. me but what cian I give in loving 1nnHgr tlie auspicas of tha and sacrificial living. | Methodist Church.
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