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VOLUME 30 — NUMBER 16
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the wishes of its reading public as near as is humanly possible.
Entered as Second Cla« matter at the Peat Offices at Dnrham, Nerth Carolina mider the aet «f
March S. 1S7».
A CITY OF INSULTS AND ABUSES
Every since the president of the American
Tobacco Company, the late George Wash
ing Hill, was insulted while on a visit to
Durham by one of its newspapers that refer
red to him as looking more like a 'circus
barker” than a great industriahst, or words
to that effect, we have watched with a de
gree of alarm the consistency with which
those same journals make Durham practical
ly uninhabitable for people whose views do
not conform to certain patterns hereabout.
We have been told that Mr. Hill went back
to New York and mailed the officials and
each employee of those newspapers a copy
of Dale Carnegie’s book on how to make
friends and influence people. If the great
tycoon sent the book, there is little evidence
that it was ever read by those who have to ’
do with formulating the policies of Durham’s
daily newspapers.
The reputation which Durham has of driv
ing away from the city institutions and peo
ple who might contribute greatly to its
growth and development appears to us to be
gaining in momentum here of late rather
than diminishing. It is the same practice
that has made Durham a city of absentee
ownership, when it comes to its largest en
terprises, rather than one of home owner
ship. It is the same practice that drove the
Dukes, an insurance company and several
other important persons and enterprise
from Durham.
It is no accident that Durham has the
largest number of homes owned by Negroes
per capita in the United States. It is no ac
cident that Negroes in Durham contrormore
wealth per capita than in any other city in
the nation. It so happens, however, that the
Negro in Durham is fortunate enough to live
under the protecting wing of the largest
business owned and-operated by their peo
ple anywhere in the world. It so happens
that here in Durham is located the second
largest bank owned and operated by Ne
groes at^where in the world. Both of these
institutions, therefore, make it possible for
their people to secure financial backing
which in turn adds considerably to the whole
economy of Durham.
When it is realized that at the time this
is written the race has no representation in
the city or county governments, no repre
sentation in its Chamber of Commerce, is
practically barred from every policy-mak
ing body within the confines of the city and
county governments, and that every time a
Negro dares run for public office it is the
signal for Durham’s daily newspapers to
open their tirade of abuses and insults about
the “Parrish Street Crowd,” and other
epithets, it is no wonder that rumors are
beginning to persist tliat the question of
moving the home office of North Carolina
Mutual Life In^rance Company to another
city, where the atmosphere will be more
tolerant, is being discussed.
WESTERN BUREAU
In Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Fay
etteville, where the race does not make the
contribution to the development of those
cities as it does in Durham, Negroes run,
and are elected to public office without
notice or without being kicked around. In
fact, the Negro member of the City Council
in Greensboro would have been elected if
no Negroes had voted for him at all. In his
last race for the office he was not only elect
ed but led the ticket. It remains for Dur
ham, and Durham alone, to throw up its
hands in holy horror every time a Negro
seeks public office.
In spite of all this, we urge Negro busi
nesses and individuals to remain in Durham
and not to consider seriously the idea of
moving away from here. We do so with the
same thought we have in mind when we
urge Negroes to remain in the South, where
a majority of their race so sorely needs
guidance, protection and help. For we must
never forget that to a large extent the abuses
and discriminatidns have resulted in such
institutions as North Carolina Mutual and
the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, and that
suffering makes a people great, and great
people build great institution. This bull
dozing attitude, this tendency of Durham to
look down its nose at other cities and towns.
Thig nttifnrfp, thig nilA nr r||j|n pp]-
icy is getting Durham nowhere and is prob
ably just why smaller cities like Burlington,
Kinston and Goldsboro always “gits thar
firstest with the mostest.”
Why doesn’t Durham have a television
station? Why did Durham miss the Air
Force Base while Goldsboro got theirs? Why
was Durham one of the last major cities in
North Carolina to get a radio station? Why
was Durham the last major city in North
Carolina to get Negro policemen? Why has
it taken the federal government and every
other outside organization connected with
the mailcarriers to secure two lone Negro
employes in the Durham Post Office?
Why has Durham fought so hard to keep
Negroes out of its fire department? Why
did Durham seek Negro support for a bond
issue that would result in a fire station be
ing erected in the Hayti section of the city
and then hold it up because Negroes asked
that it be staffed with members of their
race?
Unless Durham can very soon have some
important funerals this city is destined to
lose not only other enterprises that want
to come here, but many of those already
located here will be forced to move to other
cities where those who direct the affairs are
not so busy fighting the Civil War that
they haven’t time to encourage growth and
development. You can’t put the future of a
city in the hands of a group of people who
are only one generation from poverty and
igonrance and expect it to generate the
broader coi^ept of American life.
iVo Justification
In restoring Police Officers
Ledwell and Lanning to duty
following Judge W. K. Mc
Lean’s decision, were the best
interests of this community
served? Were the best Inter
ests of local law enforcement
served? We wonder.
On what grounds «a* those
responsiUe for this re-iasteto-
meat Justify cehtiaiiinc theae
men as law enforcement of
ficers, when, beyond a rea-
soMhle donbt, they either as-
sanlted. helped to asaanlt, or
permitted asMalt on an in
nocent citisen of thla etmi-
mnnltyT
Does this action, restoring
these men to duty, mean that
no citizen may feel secure
from improprltious acts of
men employed and sworn to
uphold the law?
Doe* an office of the law
have to be “courtroom-con
victed” before his conduct is
considered as "unbecoming”
to the extent that he no longer
•ervea the best Interests of the
cMnmanity or of law en C
fwcement efforts.
This community, and es-
pecially its Negro people, who
far too often are the victims
of the improprltious acts
policemen, is no doubt dis
turbed about the implications
of the events which have led
to the re-assignment of men
to police duty, who, if they
were not guilty of actually
committing the act of assault
on Joseph Edgerton, were at
least gOilty of an inexcusable
impropriety.
Again we ask, Is there any
sound justification for the re
assignment of Ledwell and
Lanning to jobs of public
trust?
Spiritual Insight
“A Teaching: Mental Health”
By REV. HAROLD ROLAND
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist .Church
"We . . . being many are
one body in Christ ... ev
eryone members one of an
other . . .” Rom. 12:5.
The Bible contains the funda
mentals of a happy and healthful
mind. The essentials ot a healthy
and a liappy mind areiaid down
by the great and blePiid teach
ings of the Holy WHf. We must
admit that the Bible’s teachings
on love, faith, trust, communion,
fellowship and reverence are
the roots and foundation of
mental health and happiness.
How can we apply the heal
ing powers and truths to the
sick and' GrouMed Ailnds~Of^
people. Mental health has
been the great concern of all
creative and healing ministries
—Religion, Medicine, Educa
tion and Human Relations.
One of the great problems of
our time is how can we achieve
mental health and secure the
peace and happiness of the two
billion inhabitants of this globe?
This is a first order of business
before mankind. This is Mental
Health Week.
What is the issue? How can
we create and maintain an
atmosphere in which all peo
ple of every clas, condition,
race and nationality can (row
Into a full, well-rounded and
wholesome manhood and wo
manhood?
The healing spiritual truths of
true Religion are most conducive
to the essential conditions of
good Mental health. The roots
of mental health are found in
true Religion—Faith, trust, God,
Christ, fellowship, commuhTon,
interdependence and love. These
These truths of Religion make
for healthy minds and bodies.
Leave these out of the making
of a man and you have a sick
mind.
What are we trying to say?
We are trying to express the
great fact of Mental health as
expressed by the great spirit-
WASHINGTON ANO
SMALL BUSINESS”
a , C. WILSON HARDER
C.W. Hardtr
It’s an old adage, “Give a
ca]^ enough rope and he’ll hang
himielf’.
• • *
It applies te bareeacrats toot
ai witnessed by onrrent npraar
over firing at Dr. A, T. Astia
as head of Btuean sf Standards
by Commerce Secretary Wesks.
• * *
Secretary Weelu aoted to np-
liold a deep
Boated Amari-
can principle
that a man ii
entitled to a
fair and square|
trial before
reaching a ver
dict.
■ • * •
Bat Dr. Alt-{
In decided to
bans a small
manufaotnrer
out ia Oakland, California, with
out benefit of trial. This manu
facturer developed a product
which he felt served a pnrpose:
a belief shared by many cos-
tomeri IncludinK the U. 8. Gov
ernment who over a period of
years liked the product so well
it was used in all equipment go
ing to Korea.
• • *
Under Dr. Astin'i direction
the Bureau ot Standards decided
the product though harmless,
has no merit, on basis that prod
ucts in past designed to do the
same job did not have merit.
* • •
The insistence of the mantk-
I facturer to operate in the face
of the Bureau, so infnriated the
bu~eaucrsts that the fail runs
of bureaucratic machinery were
turued afslnst the small mana-
t.ie;urer.
• * •
Ti^e Post Oflice stamped
"Fraud” oa the firm’s mail.
To the credit of the Postmaster
General, he stepped in and
stopped such action.
But as soon as Secretary Weeks
fired Dr. Aatin, government evi*
X'UoiiBired-riUon of Independent Hittiiwgi
Pleyed
has as
soiiBtists tahwd a ailglr.
Seeretaiy Weeks s«mBS1s Ael
a sclsntist aad itiiUe potettng
to eonfUcting views by many
sdentisti the prodos^ 40»
flnes his vlewpohit to a eeodsm*
nation ot Ihe procedure ased>
* • •
Ike Oakland Better. Bastaiss
Bnreaa, sealoas for the pabUo la*
tereet as all Better Bnstness
braaebes, hnmd no oaiplatats
froaa aeeis. Seeretary Weeks
also feels noa-bamful prodacts
shouM be allowed trial bsfore
Jary of faUlc approval
• • •
But with belief in the Divine
Right of Bureaus, this view is
fought by entrenched bureau
cracy.
• • •
WhUe the uproar over the Dr.
Astln’s firing ia based on this one
case. Secretary Weelcs believed
there were many other cases of
high-handed action. In govern
ment one incident does not cause
dismissal any more thaa one
swallow makes a summer.
• * •
There Is ample evidence to dis
prove bureaucratic infallibility.
* • •
In the lass’s the then Commiss
ioner of Patents recommended
closing the office because **eve-
rythlag worthwhile that can be
Invent^ has now been Invented."
• • *
In talcing action in tills case.
Secretary Weelcs has furnished
independent business with the
first tangible evidence of Admin
istration's intentions to give in
dependent enterprise a lair op
portunity in the marlcet place.
• * *
He has acted much as the
honest, impartial sheriff acts
when breaking up a lynching
party, determined that before
any action is taken, a fair and
square trial of the evidence will
be held. Be shows determina
tion to stop bureaucratic lynch
ing of Independent enterprise.
ual Seer, the Apostle Paul
. . . “We . . . are one body .
everyone members one of an
other . . How can you have
a healthy mind living in isola-
ton and loneliness?
On the other band there are
certain feelings that are known
enemies of a healthy mind. Theae
enemies are corrosive fears,
poisonous hatred, the agony of
isolation and selfishness and the
destructve feeling of being un
wanted and unloved. Yes, all
thMe feelings and emotions are
sworn enemies of a sound and
healthy mind. Thus we come to
an inescapable conclusion that
religion and its great resources
are indispensable for creating
and maintaining an atmosphere
of MENTAL HEALTH. Thus we
must try to keep the atmosphere
in which children grow and
adults live free from the
HEALTH-DESTROYING FEEL
INGS AND EMOTIONS.
The atmosphere of the home
, is important ter good MEN
TAL HEALTH! A home of
love creates mental health. A
home of hatred and conflict
destroys mental health. Nega
tive and destructive emotions
are as contagious as measles,
smallpox or whooping cough.
So let your home atmosphere
be filled with acceptance, se
curity, fellowship and love.
Thus the home becomes the
foundation, and love the key to
that blessed state of a sound and
healthy mind. Parents, you have
a God-given responsibility to
make your home an atmosphere
of love in which you and your
children can have a sound and
healthy mind. This cannot be
done without the preventive and
healing powers of true religion
—^faith, hope, fellowship and
love.
Let us use the great resources
of spiritnal healing of the Be-
liglon of Jesus to develop aipd
maintain the healthy mimif
which is our great heritage.
How can I use the resources of
Beligion for Mental Health?
You can use them by cul
tivating your prayer life,
Bible reading. Church attend
ance, serving others and iden-
titying yourself with some
group in the Church. Finally
we must strive to make our
churdies places which are
centers of HOLY LOVE AND
FELLOWSHIP.
WITHIN And
AMONG
Alfred F. Andersen
Dear Fellow Seekers .... Last
week we began our exploration
of the question of immortality
by attempting to show first that
it makes an important.difference
in our efforts to live the good
life whether one assumes for
oneself and fellows an eternal
Ufe span or one imder 100 years.
This fact Ijecomes more striking
when we think of the contrast
between anticipating a normal
life span and “twelve more
months to live” ... or one day!
Certainly a person who Imows
he has only one more day to live
on this earth Uves differently
from what he would if he could
anticipate many years yet. And
if a friend should be in such a
situation, certainly we think and
act differently toward him.
What can the non-believer in
“after-life” say to such a friend?
He can “kid him along” un-
realistically; but his friend
will probably see through this.
Or he can “give it to him
straight,” reassuring him that
the good that he has done in
the world will grow and ad
vance in the hands of those
who follow after. Bnt if the
friend asks: “What . of the
good that is still within
me, unexpressed and unde
veloped? What about ME as a
responsible free agent, cap
able of intelligent e|fort “in
the cause” and only begun to
learn the ins and outs ot re
sponsible living? What hap
pens to that?” What can the
“non-believer” say then in
behalf of the good life? If he’s
honest he’ll say, “I don’t
know.”
Then it is likely that the dying
friend (assuming him t^uly
heroic) will turn the tables on
the friend of healthy body which
stands there shaking in its flab
by spiritual foundations. Then
is the time for the assertion:
“There must be some future for
me, a conscious responsible be
ing, for me and imdeveloped
unique l>eing with so much
within which seems aimed at life
among. If there be any hope for
anythng but superficials, if there
be any justice in the nature of
things, there must be for me,
and for you my friend, another
approach, another avenue, as
yet unforseeable in concretion,
but morally imperative.”
We have committed oor-
selves in this colimm, by moral
necessity, to there being an
Overall Moral Orderer. By the
same token, and consistent
,with it, we see now the moral
necessity of livng pur lives
as if all the potential good
within will be given opportunity
in due time to play its role
among.
Perhaps this does not mean
inevitable immortality. But it
does mean the possibility of it. It
means that the Moral Orderer is
morally obligated to “follow
through” on this which haslaeen
tasted and to sustain conscious
life as long as it is lived re
sponsibly through the develop
ment of its potential. Even with
those who deny life extremely,
the Moral Orderer seems obli
gated to forgive “seventy times
seven” and to provide ever an
other opportunity to approach
the Life Stream another way.
Therefore we have somethlag
to add to our body of commit
ment regarding working hy
pothesis. To our conunittment
to living as if “Ood" and as if
“free will” we add that of liv
ing as if immortality, for our
selves and for all conscious
enU^esI But note that we are
not aiwuming a “heaven” in
the orthodox sense, where all
is sweetness and light, and
there are no more moral chal
lenges and spiritual travail.
On the contrary, we are as
suming a continuous develop
ment and expansion of re-
sponsibilties, not an end to
them.
To lie sure, there must be rest
for those deserving; opportunity
to recuperate and be refreshed
by the intimate “love of God.”
But those who have rejected the
immortality thesis because it
seemed a cowardly and irres
ponsible one carmot have that
objection to the one we offer
here. Our thesis is to promote
creative, outgoing life . . . “and
more abundantly.” It is import
ant that we keep this in mind as
we proceed in this discussion.
' But now there is no donbt
those, if there be any readers
at all, who are impatient for
some conception of how this
can all be. Aren’t people who
die so completely dead? Cer
tainly all the evidence points
to death as final, as the end
to all life as we know it Those
who have been “brought back
to life” report of no “after
life.” Next week we shall deal
with these questions and oth
ers related thereto.
LETTER TO THE PUBLIC
ASHEVILLE
Dear PriendsT
I have been appointed as Di
rector of the Western North
Carolina Bureau of THE
CAROLINA TIMES newspa
per, and I consider it an hon
or and a privilege to continue
to have an opportunity to
render service here in the
Asheville area.
The newspaper can be a
medium of conununity ser
vice. This is my desire, and the
desire of the CAROLINA
TIMES. It is sincerely hoped
that the contents of this Ashe
ville Edition of the 'HMES
will always be representative
of the desire of the total com
munity, for we do want the
Abheviiie Edition to be a real
community paper in every
sense of the word.
As Director of the TIMES
Western North Carolina Bur
eau, I pledge myself to full
- cooperation Iq gyr efforts to
ward real community pro
gress; and in keeping with the
highest principles and ideals
of the CAROLINA TIMES,
this Asheville Edition will
serve no special interest nor
class, but will serve the peo
ple; and at all times will at
tempt to live up to its great
motto, “The Truth Unbridled.”
The CAROLINA TIMES is
your servant, always desiring
to serve faithfully the best in
terests of the total conununity,
and its Negro people, in partic
ular. Therefore, call on us
for anything tn which you
think we can be of some as
sistance.
In grateful appreciation for
your many fine gestures of
support presently and in the
past, I remain
Your faithful servant,
HUGH A. JOHNSON
Special Honors Day Observed At
Livingstone College; Mary Wliite
Senior Honor Student Speaks
Special Honors Day was ob
served on the campus at Living-^
stone College here yesterday,
sponsored by the Student Coun"
cll in recognition of students
who have excelled m scholar
ship and other campus activities.
Seventy-one students were cited
for honors on the scholastic.
Honor Roll during the current
school year and given badeS
designating their accomplish
ments at the mid-week asson*'
bly.
Mary White, senior and honor
student from Winlall,, N. C.,
gave the feature address on the
theme, "Honor: Its slgnllicancel
and Power”. Darnell McCauley,
Junior from Pittsburgh, Pa.,
president of the Student Council
presided at the assembly. A part
of the annual Student Govoiu.
ment activities mtonsored by the
Student Council, the Honors
Day is an effort to stimtilattf
wholesome attitudes on the part
of the students toward the high
scholastic standards of the col
lege and to motivate them to
ward full participation in the
activities on the campus.
Special tributes of memorial
were paid James Charles, an
honor student, who was acci
dentally killed during the sum
mer vacation last year. He was
memoralized for his dilli(ence
in his school work as well as
other gentlemanly characteris
tics that endeared him to his
fellow-students.
Sp^al awards were given
scholastic honorees by Blarlowe
F. Shute, Dean of the College,
and by EdWard L. Mitchell, Di
rector of Athletics, to young
men earning varsity awards and
special trophies. The special
trophies. The m>eclal Honors
Day was concluded with a Ban
quet for the students eamlnit
honors.