rAOK TWO
TWK OABOLINA mots SATCBDAY, mat (tSrd, 19SS
Lef s Improve The Situation
Why was a CAROLINA
TIMES representative barred
from a recent meeting of the
grievance committee of the
hospital board in which a Ne-
• gro citizen of this community
was appearing in order to re
state and substantiate her
charge of willful mistreat
ment by nureing personnel
while she was a patient at the
Victoria Hospital?
Was the TIMES repre
sentative barred because
there were some hospital of
ficials who did not want this
particular representative of
the TIMES to add to his
knowledge additional infor
mation concerning what ap
pears to be a very unwhole
some situation with respect to
Negro patient-care and Ne
gro staff relations at the hos
pital?
Whether present or absent,
the situation at Victoria Hos
pital is such that stories of
pK>or patient-care and poorer
staff relations, with respect
to Negroes, are fast becoming
common knowledge in th*
Neg^ community. And as a
result, there are definite in
dications that the Negro peo
ple of this community are be
coming disturbingly diaallus-
ioned about what has hap
pened since the closing of the
Asheville Colored Hospital.
The results, apparently, have
been somewhat short of ap
proaching the promises made
to the Negro people a few
years ago at the. Ume when
funds were being solicited in
order to build the nearly-com
pleted new Medical Centw of
Western North Carolina.
If conditions for Negroes
are bad with respect to pa
tient-care and employment in
the present situation and
with completion of the new
Medical Center scheduled for
sometime this Fall, it would
certainly appear that the Ne
gro people of this community
need to take steps immediate
ly to assure and make certain
that the Negro peojple of this
community are not being "cut
short” in any reipect.
Therefore, it would seem
advisable, and urgently so,
that appropriate steps be
taken to organ^ a/compet
ent and repreaentative group
of citizens for the purpose of
making a study and investiga
tion into every phase of the
hospital’s operations, and that
such conclusions that are^ va
lidly reached, be translated
into the proper practices and
procedures for the operations,
henceforth.
In the meanwhile, may we
suggest that the policy-mak
ing and executive officials of
the hospital take an un-pre-
judiced and objective look
at its operations, especially
where Negro patients and Ne
gro personnel are involved, in
the interest of and with the
view toward improving staff
relations ai\d improving pa
tient-care.
Let’s improve the situation;
not let it get worse.
When Brotherhood Is Absent
Before you read this edi
torial get alone with yourself
where you can thing serious
ly and prayerfully about what
it is going to say. You will
need to be alone if you think
us not evil for writing such
harsh words against the
Christian Church.
The greatest hours of seg
regation and absence of bro
therhood in the United States
is not at a baseball game, a
prize fight, a theatrical per
formance, a speak-easy reek
ing with liquor, a gamblers’
den nor a house of prostitu
tion. All of these places man
age somehow to find, every
now and then, a common
ground where their partici
pants meet on one level for
the promotion of their pro-
'gram. The greatest hour of
segregation and absence of
brotherhood is that between
eleven and one-thirty on Sun
day, when, in the name of Je
sus, white and Negro Chris
tians in this country gather in
separate churches to worship
and beseech the God of aU
mankind for help.
It is in that hour that Amer
icans uf all races sink to their
lowest depth in hypocrisy
and defiance of the teachings
of the founder of the Chris
tian religion. The sports
world, and the theatrical
world may find a way for
participants to get together
without regard to race or
creed and enjoy themselves.
The drunkard and the pro
stitute may sometimes during
their lives meet pn a common
level, drink liquor out of the
same bottle or glass and revel
in licentious living without
regard to race or skin color. It
remains for the Christian
church and the Christian
church alone to refuse to re
treat one inch from Us stand
against the brotherhood of
man.
The sports world, even in
the deep South, is beginning
to deal some telling blows
against the evil of segrega
tion. In Georgia, North Caro
lina, Virginia and other south
ern states Negroes are being
accepted for their worth in
oaseball and other sports. It
is alright for Joe l^uis and
Billy Conn and other pu
gilists to stage a prize fight
together; it is alright for the
Harlem Globetrotters to stage
a basketball game in a white
sports arena; and it is becom
ing alright for Negroes to hit
home runs in mixed ball
games even in the South. But
for Joe Negro and Billy Gra
ham to save souls together
must not be tolerated in high
Christian circles.
So, instead of the Christian
church in America promoting
the brotherhood of man, it is
the one institution* above
them all that stands in the
way tof its furtherance. For
Negroes and whites to pray,
sing and otherwise worship
God together would be to
pull down the last remaining
fortress against the damnable
evil of segregation. Its lead
ers know that men cannot call
upon the true and living God
together without eventually
accepting the teachings that
He is no respecter of person.
They know that the closer
man gets to God the more he
realizes his own frailty and
his total dependence on Him
for existence. It is then that
he fears to approach the
throne without taking his
brother with him. It is then
that he realizes that he is his
brother’s keeper, and that
both of them ne^ to go up
into the temple together to
pray.
"Brain-Washing” In U. S.
You have been reading
lately much about the tech
nique of “brain washing”
us^ by the Communists on
American soldiers in far a-
way China and Korea. You
ne^ not become too distur
bed about “brain washing”
b^ng something new among
the people of the earth. The
only thing new is the name.
Long before the Communists
came into power and even un
til this very moment “brain
washing” of Negroes in Amer
ica "has been used ever since
the*' first boat load was
brought to these shores and
sold into slavery.
The Communists, who ap
parently are just learning
about this method of thought
control, could probably leam
a great deal about “brain
washing” from the United
States, especially in the
South. Here the method has
been practiced for so long a
time on Negroes that it is the
accepted custom, and woe be
tide any white man who dares
refuse to keep the practice. If
he refuses and is found ac
cepting and treating Negroes
as his equal, the “brain wash
ing” machine in 'all its fury
is tlien turned on him until he
too becomes a “brain washer”
or accepts the custom without
a “mumbling word.”
Southern white men know
this and many who feel that
Negroes are being dealt in
sults, injustices and indigni
ties almost beyond human en
durance would like to speak
out against them but are a-
fraid of the cons^uences.
Thus you will see all over
the South, otherwise fine and
upright white citizens, de^
heaven and hell about un
paved streets, Sunday movies
or Sunday baseball and other
lesser evils, while they wink
at a lynching, the rape of a
Negro woman by a white man
and other discriminations
which the Negroes suffer.
As sad as is the plight of
these white citizens, it is not
half as sad as that of majority
of the Negroes who, having
bwn “brain washed,” live
and die without ever know
ing that they are victims of
one of the most fiendish prac
tices ever concocted in the
minds of evil men. Not even
the most highly educated of
the race escapes, for quite of
ten you will see otherwise
normal Negro men and wo
men, holding masters and doc-
The Readers Speak
THE NISEDUCATION OF
A COLLEGE YOUTH-H
toral degrees, crawling up
the backdoor stairs of a jim
crow theater, accepting with
relish segregated seats behind
goal posts at football games
and other indignities that on
ly “brain washed” victims
would endure.
So complete has been the
“brain washing” job on Ne
groes that many of them will
hire a taxi or walk long dis
stances right by the most
modern and up-to-date free
delivery store operated by
members of their own race
and haul their groceries and
other commodities home. Be
cause of “brain washing”
they actually believe that the
sugar in the white store is just
a little sweeter and the pep
per just a little hotter.
Let there be no mistake
about it, "brain washing” of
Negroes in the United States
is the most perfected of any
in the world. Only the strong
of heart and spirit in the race
escapes this terrible indoc-
trinization of the belief that
only white is right. Only they
can stand up against the eter
nal pounding on the mental
ity. that equality, freedom and
first-class citizenship are “for
white only.”
EdHor’t Note: The loriter of
lollowing letter ij diKiuaing
an article appearing in a re
cent ittite of the ..Daily Tar
Heel, the ttudent newtpaper
at the University of North
Carolina. The firU'part of thit
letter wot printed in Uut
week’s paper. Following is
the concluding portion.
The author of “The Periloua
Hour” is also obviously not a
student oi Education, least he
should know that any profes
sor worth his salt and with
the ability to teach In a uni
versity knows that there is
no superior race, and all men
are human beings. This infor
mation is not restricted to
“northern professors”.
Wood is surely not a student
of Sociology, least he should
know that no one race is en
dowed with the irresponsible
the uneducated, or the men
tally retarded, that where
there is equal opportunity,
there is equal attainment,
where there is equal environ
ment, there is equal culture
and the only difference in the
races as a whole is economic
and man made.
America cannot allow a
misconception of social justice
to retard her progress in a free
world. The eyes of the Com
munist world are upon us...
and each false move is ma
ligned, misconceived and mis
judged....with the air of men
like Wood.
“The common man was the
pioneer in the building of this
great country, and he gave of
blood, sweat and tears, that
this nation might become
strong and powerful”. The
Negro was numbered among
these men. And now with each
passing day it is made clear
that the world of the past is
dead and gone...and that we
are now living In a New
World... that the common man
has now become the New
Man...so with the Negro, there
is a New Negro; far different
from the antl-bellum and Re
construction day Negro.
As Mr. Moody says, “We
must love our Negroes and
forgive them for they know
not what they do’’. I can say
that the possessive, paterna
listic attitudi^, once accepted
by the Negio also went out
with the anti-bellum and re
construction days. The New
Negro needs no forgiveness
for he knows what he does.
The New Negro takes his
place in his search for free
dom...in his quest for Holy
Bail and in bia^ ttemanrt lor
full social Justice, civil liber
ties and civil rights. Men like
Wood, Hamilton, Clark and
organizations like the K.K.K.
will not deter him from the
achievement of his goal.
Mr. Wood, the New Negro
can not be “tamed” as you
wish him...accepting your im-
democratic ideas without
challenge. He can and will be
come “ vicious”... vicloua to
the Increased'use of the ballot
and Of the cdurts in seeking
Ills rightful place in society...
hot the place you wish to
keep him. And for your in-
fornnation and the Information
of many who share your
thoughts...the Negro does not
wish to marry your daughters,
he has many charming and
cultured ladies of his own
race from which to choose.
There will always, of course
be Interracial marriages, but
such are certainly not the
aims of the race as a whole.
In closing may I quote from
the Shrine's pledge a chal
lenge to “The Perilous Hour”
and to those who may share
its views.
“We pfedge ourselves, to the
promotion, along with other
thoughtful citizens, of modem
and practical legislation by any
governmental agency, that will
rebound to the benefit of our
“AMERICAN” way of life.
“We pledge ourselves, to sup
port duly coMstituted authority,
for the elimination of anti-social
conditions, wherever found to
exist, that we and all other
people may enjoy a rich, round
and fuller life.
“We pledge ourselves, to mo
rally support and encourage
every social agency, that has for
its purpose the maintenance of
the highest ideals of the people
of the nation.
“We pledge ourselves, to co
operate fully in disseminating
‘Truth’, among the people of
the earth, to the end that “DE
MOCRACY” shall prevail for
ever, and the peace of every
nation be preserved.”
C. W. THOMPSON, lU, MD.
Chapel Hill.
HD Women Meet
AtA&TCollege
GREENSBORO
“In living in America, with
all of the rights and privileges
which we enjoy, we Ukewlse
accept a civic responsibility
which we must not shun”, warn
ed R. E. Jones, state agent of
the North Carolina Extension
Service as he delivered the prin
cipal address at the annual
meeting of the Negro Home
Demonstration Women of the
western district held here at A.
and T. College yesterday.
Dr. F. D. Bluford, president
of the college gave the welcome
New officers for the ensuing
year Included: .Mrs. Lillie
Perry, Chatham County, presi
dent; Mrs. Martha Lipscomb,
Rowan County, vice president;
Mrs. Alice Clayton, Person Co.
secretary; Mrs. Ella Trice,
Orange County, .treasurer and
Mrs. Mary Speight, Durham
County, assistant treasurer.
WASHINGfON AND
SMALl BUSINESS”
Saturday
dteCaima Ci»r0 May 23,1953
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A plan to solv* nawiprlnt iirob-
latn la before CongrcH.
* * *
Baokrroimd date ■apportbig
this plan was amaaaed d nr Inc
Senate Small Bnainesa Commit
tee atody of newmprlnt ■itutkm
abont • rear Fasta were
faond, for ex
ample, that the
V. 8. pren de
pends on Can
ada for S/6’i
of its newsprint
•apply where
producers ap
pear to operate
as a monopoly
• • •
It ii time fori
action, layi C.w. Harder
Sen. Francis Case (Rep. S. D.),
^ • • •
qphas liitroduoed a bUl fliat
will permit a newsprint Industry
In the vast Tonfass National For
ests of Soatheastern Alaska
Although these reserves were
held Inviolate lor years, recently
permission was granted an In
ternational firm to cut pulp tim
ber to make cellulose,
* * *
Senator Case feels ttane has
come to protect Interests of inde
pendent U, 8. publishers.
' • * •
His bill has several Int^-asting
provisions. A private company
shall operate Alaskan newsprint
industry. It must agree to re
serve a certain percentage of
production to meet needs at
American newspapers with olr-
culation ci 10,000 or less,'
• • «
In addition, the bUl reoecnlMa
the ftnanclal problems faced In
estsblishlnc an Alaskan news
print Industry. Therefore, the
emerxenoy rapid tax aniortisa-
tion allowed major V. S. Indus
tries wUl be granted. As It costs
around |10,0M pee ten of capa
city to bolld a newsprint plant,
the bin also provide* BFC may
loan up to ISO milUoa, to be paid
Bv C. WILSON HARDER
back ever M yean.
• • •
Strenuous objeetkn to this bill
from both domestio and foreign
sources can be expected. Fanner
State Department opposed aotlaa
on newsprint proUem.
* * •
But in Senator Case’s mind the
problem la quite simple.
• * *
PreservatlGo of American lil>-
ertles, both political and econ
omic, rest on a free and Indepen
dent press In the inuUler com-
munlties a£ the natlcti.
* * *
Due to price fouctng by Oa»
adlan newsprint produoers.
many publlshen must qtead N
Cents oat of every dollar taken in
Just for paper. Mortality ameng
Independeat newspapers has
reached m tmr Ugh.
• • *
On the other side of the pic
ture, more and more the big cit
ies are being served only with a
chain newspaper. And due to
what many consider laxity by
the Federal Communications
Commission, television and ra
dio station ownership la being
given to big oomblnes, many of
them also having Interests In
metropolitan newspapers.
• * *
Thns, more and more, weekly
sad saull daUy newspapers r»-
main the only Institatlona iriure
freedom of expreeslea is femd
la the Halted States.
* * •
Oppodtlon to ttils bin win un
doubtedly olaim this Is a plan by
wlilch newspaper publishers ai«
trying to use the government to
feather their own nests.
•see
But the facts are the major
sopport oomes frem IndependetBt
baslnessmen not connected with
the pttbUabtng businees. Ite
leaders at these hisrinissmsn
fed that ae so gees the tndepea-
dent newspaper, so gees the free
dom e( enterprise In aB fields
of endeavor. The prtgnmol tU*
bin win be watohed by millions.
"Moving Aiiead, Despite All Oi»tables"
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ARTS
Spiritual Insight
Understanding Tlie Alcoholic
BY REVEREJSD HAROLD ROLAND
PoftoVf Mount Gilead Baptist Church
And they come to Jesus, and
saw him that was posessed
. clothed in his right mind
Mark 5:15.
Alcoholism and the alcoholic
represent a growing national
health and spiritual problem. It
is a threat and a peril to the
iiealth and the well-being ef
our nation. There was one case
that Jesus had to deal wMh
which seemed to have some or
all of characetristics the Alco
holic or the uncontrolled drink
ers; It Is the mentally and spiri
tually sick man among the
Gadarenes. Let us note the deli
cate compassion, understanding
with which Jesus dealt with this
case. Jesus did not curse, nag nor
condemn the tnan. Jesus did not
sit in judgement nor did he en
ter upon a long moral tirade.
Why? The man needed under
standing and healing.' The man
was sick. iU needed healing.
Mark sITys he “HAD CdMPAS-
SiON ON HHM".
The Alcoholic or uncon
trolled drinker Is a sick man or
woman and needs an under
standing and tr healing touch.
The Alcoholic has been the most
misunderstood and abused
character in our society. Here
Ues one of the great challenges
of the Christian Church. What
is the problem? We need a new
attitude. We need to bring to
bear the compassion, tmder-
standlng and love that Jesus
brought to bear in a healing
way upon the sick and troubled
man among the Gadarenes. Read
this beautiful story of the deli
cate skill of the master’s healing
touch In the case of this sick
man. The Million alcoholics in
our nation are sick and need the
understanding and healing
ministry of the religion of Jesus.
We all have been too slow
in understanding the spiritual
beauty and power of the Re
ligion of Jesus. We cannot. In
our humanness, grasp the full
meaning and Import of the heal
ing and redeeming powers re
vealed by Jesus Christ the son
of God. We are too human to
grasp the sublime spiritual
beauty of the Christ as revealed
in his relation with this help
less and sick man among the
Gadarenes. Jesus understood.
He loved the man. He healed
“tiwnnm. The m«n w— sared for
society. He too was precious in
the sight of God. He too, was
worthy to be saved. The Alco
holic is human. He is precious
in the sight of God. Jesus ever
had love and understanding for
the most degraded wretch. Let
us understand the Alcoholic. Let
us show a Christian attitude.
Let us try to heal and save the
alcoholic. The Spirit of Jesus de
mands that we build and rebuild
men as weD as fine Churches.
We need a new attitude—THE
CHRISTIAN ATTmJDE! This
attitude holds that every Indivi
dual is precious in the sight of
God • and is worth saving. Too
many Christians have shown the
unchristian attitude to the sick
and helpless alcoholic. What did
Jesus say about the lost sheep?
He said leave the ninety and
nine and to search for the lost
sheep. We must free ourselves,
as Christians, from the old Idea
that the alcoholic Is nothing but
a no-good, wretched bum or
sinner. He Is a child of God. He
is precious in the sight of God.
He needs healing and rehabili
tation. The Alcoholic Is one of
the lost sheep of our society.
He is lost in the tangled maze
of shame, guilt, remorse, fear,
tension, abuse, condemnation,
loneliness,. confusion, agony,
pain and sickness of body, mind
and 8010.
Just think what rejoicing will
come if just one is reclaimed or
healed. What happiness you
will bring to a home, a wife, a
husband, a mother, the children
or friends if you can help in the
healing of olie Alcoholic. You
will bring back a lost and sick
one to the job, the home, friends,
self esteem and respectibility.
(Please turn to Page Seven)
by Alfred Andersen
Within and Among
Dear fellow seekers....Our ef
forts thus far to lend plausi
bility to the "after-life thesis"
are leading us to some kind of
‘transmigration of souls’ picture.
We have tried to show the neces-
sityof continuity with “this life’’,
particularly as regards those
particular individuals (whether
we have had spiritual embrace.
For such spiritual fellowship Is
the stuff of the moral life. Mo
ral-life is inconceivable without
it. This means that we are thlnk-
hig in terms of an "after-life"
as going on from this one as
against one unrelated to it.
But if yonder postman was
once a scampering canine at
the feet of Cleopatra why does
he not have recollection of it?
If we h^e played other ndea
in Life before this, one why
can’t we remember them? Well,
perhaps we can as regards
significant aspects. Perhaps
this instinctive affection we have
for lower forms of life has a
history. Perhaps the soul's re
treat to "nature" when the hu
man scene becomes too ugly Is
an attempt to relive the past
and perhaps this is a good thing.
Perhaps Insight into nature is
one of the basic fruits of slowing
down our life’s tempo. Certainly
Thoreau thought so. One cannot
take time to read his accounts of
cdmmunion with nature at Wal
den pond without feeUng a basic
kinship there. To be sure most
of us don’t take such time to
sound the depths of our lives. It
takes time and thou^t to em
ploy any kind of slgnlffaiant
memory. And time and thought
just isn’t of this age. Yet we
have seen from studies in hyp
nosis that it is polsible to re
member countless expertencea
whidh we thought were for
gotten forever.
Some psychologists claim tiiat
no experience Is ever forgottra;
that it can, with proper prepara
tion, be brought back to relaxa
tion in all its colorful and emo
tional details. Fanciful Dianatica
even claims to recall prenatal
experiences, the act of cMioep-
tion Itselfl Yes, even converaa-
tlons between the mating pair
Immediately prior to and during
the conceptlve act. However thia
may be, it seems defii^itely es
tablished Uiat our potential
mmorles go to trenmdoua
depths. It seens reasoiuble to
assume, however, that our pre
sent extstanee “shota eat ttie de
tails of “past lives" wUeh an
imrelsited to preseBtly tawffiir
details. Thus our memories ot
"past-Uves” would natorally toe
hazy and unintsUlglble beyond
the realm of basic emotion. And
this is in keeping with wbat vm
know of life, that animal
♦htniring it to thorotigUy in
stinctive and emotional aa to be
almost devoid of objeetiVtty and
self-consciousness seems almost
exclusively confined to the hu
man level; so much so that we
need not be surprised at hazy
memory of our presumed experi
ences in “lower" conaolousoess.
All of this is of course per
fectly consistent with the uni
versally accepted theory of evo
lution (saying nothing for the
moment about how evolution
takes place and certainly rejec
ting the extreme tooth and ^w
theory). In fact, there seems
Evidence that the human em
bryo “re-lives” the entire evo
lutionary sequence from the
single-celled Oemba on up. At
one point the human body takes
on the appearance of a fish com
plete with gills and tail. All
signs of the gills are gone at
birth, but a snull remnant of
the tail is evidently discover
able at the base of the spine. Is
it possible that it-is during this
prenatal period that the human
embryo 4:e-llves its past “in-
eamatians’* as they relate to
his pMsent adveatise? Certain
ly it is in this pre-natal stage
that his past experiences are
most pertinent. Isn't it plauiA-
Ue that even as “the race” has
developed through the various
stagea from lowest form of life
that the individuals now par-
tlcipatlng in the hl^er form of
consciousness have been the
very individuals who laid the
groundwork in tiie struggles at
the lower rus0i? Something to
think about, fellow seekers.
Something to take within and
prepare it for due influence
among.