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PAGETWd THE CABOUNA TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1953 MEEIIHG THE ISSUE OF GDADUAIE nUUNWC FOt NKMES rff* II I i" Ill'll n* ■ DEEP SOUTH SPEMS iRtegration mil UpiRate This It might be inteiMliac to officiuls of Nocdi C—iiiia. especially those in thxkpnrt- ment of educatiac^ to know that there are over 300 Negro students registarad' in the University of Louisiana and that 15 of them are ttiHC on scholarships paidiiy the state. It might b« further interest ing to those same officials to know that in Virginia state officials, especially those in the department of education, the president of the Univer sity of Virginia and the pr^i- dent of Virginia State Col lege, the state’s Negro under graduate school, are all op posed to the establishment of a phoney graduate school for Negroes in their state. As a result members of the race are being admitted to the state’s graduate schools, in cluding the University of Virginia, the Medical College of Vir^nia, the Richmond Professional Institute and William and Mary. It thus appears that North Carolina is one of the back ward states of the South that is making suckers out of its taxpayers and fools out of its Negroes by forcing on them the extra burden of maintain ing first-class graduate courses “for whitw only” and phoney gMduat» courses “tor Negroes onljr,” as is operated at North Ci^lina College in Durham. While a few Negro teachers in North«Caroliaa are scampering North to ognized universities and scampering down to North CaroUna College to study in an unrecognized graduate school, Negroes of Virginia are entering the University of Virginia for the same pur pose. In Jime one was award ed a Ph. D. degree in psy chology and two more will re ceive their doctorate degrees \n other fields this year. The big difference existing in graduate training for Ne groes in Louisiana and Vir ginia and that in North Caro lina is not in the Negroes and whites of those three states, but in the leadership to be found at the head of the three Negro schools involved, Southern University, Vir ginia State College and North Carolina College. Th^ presi dents of the first two schools had the moral courage to op pose phoney graduate courses at their schools while the president of NCC meekly agreed to collaborate with such an outrageous program. . Thus thefspinelms action of the president of North Caro lina College has already cost the taxpayers of the state sev eral million dollars and the bottom of the rat hole down which the funds continue to be dumped is not yet in sight, an4 will never be in sight un less the United States Sup reme Court comes to the res cue and abolishes segregated educational facilities in all schools. For even under a pro gram of “separate but equal” Negroes are learning and will more and more make de mands for the ‘equal’ side of the contract that cannot be met without damaging the educational facilities of the white schools. If 300 Negroes can go to school with whites in Louis iana and large numbers of them can go to school with whites in Virginia we see no reason why Negroes of North Carolina must submit to phoney graduate courses at North Carolina College when they, like all the rest of the taxpayers, are paying to maintain recogniz^ graduate courses in the University of North Carolina. ADDING INSULT TO INJURY At the Western North Caro lina Sanatorium in Black Mountain a new wing for Ne groes has just been complet ed, dedicated and named for Dr. Julian Moore, Chief of Staff at the Victoria Hospital in Asheville. Dr. Moore is known to this newspaper as having the utmost contempt for Negro nurses and so ex pressed himself at a meeting last Fall when the matter of wholesale firing of them at Victoria Hospital was being discussed. If. Dr. Moore holds the Ne gro people in general in the same contempt as he does nurses of their race we are of the opinion that someone has slipped up in naming the Ne gro wing of the sanitorium for him. Certainly Negroes would at least like to have their friends honored on such occasion instead of their avowed enemies. We do not for one moment doubt Dr. Moore’s proved ability as a medical doctor nor his record in the “Battle Against Tuberculosis”; we on ly wish to question the wis dom and desirability of nam ing an institution built pri marily for Negroes in honor of a man—regardless of his professional relationship to that institution — whom the Negro people who know him cannot attest to the distinct iveness of his record in asso ciation with or attitude to ward Negroes. DOWNTOWN RESTROOM FACIUTIES FOR NEGROES The campaign now being waged in Asheville to force downtown stores in Asheville to provide adequate rest rooms for Negroes should re ceive the support of every self-respecting citizen in the state. In fact the movement should spread to ^thftr cities where businesses maintained for the general public are so heartless as to deny Negroes even this most elementary necessity. Every individual, club, church and other organized group should let it be known that they stand behind the movement by calling or writ ing the managers of stores where the custom of provid ing no rest rooms for Negroes is maintained. The lack of adequate rest room facilities for Negroes in downtown shopping districts in cities of North Carolina is not only a personal insult to every Negro, but also a racial insult and a further denial to the Negro his human dignity as a customer and a first-cleiss citizen. This matter has been brought to the attention of various negligent stores in Asheville and to the attention of the businessmen as a whole through their Chambers of Commerce and Merchants As sociation. Except in one in stance, they have done exact ly nothing. Seemingly they are waiting to see if the Ne gro people have enough “get- up” and self-respect to do something about ihis hnmi- liating and insulting condi tion. Now is the tiijae to demon strate to those who want your hard-earned dollars, that for your dollar, you want no more—but neither will you take less—even when it comes to the use of rest-room facili ties. By ROBERT DURR CFor Calvin Netes Service,^ ’ nte litipBsible Is Pbsriile NO SPECIAL NURSE TRAINING FOR NEGROES NEEDED If the movement now on one owned by all the taxpay- foot to Ktablish nurse train- ers can afford to train them. ““‘''"“■S’ race is being J^hed for the haw sole purp^ of keeping them ^ Jea^ an“aJ fa?^ out of the one already in ye^, ana as as operation at the University of No r th Carolina MeUcal School we intend to oppose it ^ to the fuUest extent. V^p- ^ T pose it first of all because tl^ Carohna have one state UiSversity of North Carolina mem- is the property of all the citi- f zens of this state and there- "“5^ f fore has no right, legal or "if ^ pleasant cir- moral, to close its d^rs to ai,y of them. Secondly we o^ of North Carolina pose it because of the need- Wexpenditure of money in- “P" volved when there is a state b^ner of segr^ owned nursing school already every ettort in operation. j unholy It appears to us that if a tradition of segrega- pnvately owned school in North Carolina can employ If it takes a suit in the fed- Negro registered nurses that eral courts to have Negro^ trained in the medical school at the University of North Carolina it ought to be filed immedi^ely. To pursue any other course is to encourage the continuance of racial dis crimination that is doing so much to furnish propaganda for the advancment of com- m u n i s m throughout the world and to rob Negroes of their rights at citizens in this state. If and when a segregated nursing school is established for Negroes it will follow the same pattern as that of the schools and colleges estab lished for them in that it will be of inferior status. For Ne gro citizens to accept the school is to further promote the program of discrimina tion now being maintained by state officials on every front in this state. Saturday ChcCai Cttnes July 18, 1953 L. E. AUSTIN, C. M. ROSS, Managing Editor ■ Every Saturday by tba UmTED FCBLISIIKRS, Inemmted at 518 E. P*ttlraw 8t. Entcvad aa aacoSr ctaaa matter at tha Poat Offlea at Durtiam, Worth Caroltni imdar tha Act of llaicli S. im. iUtliNMl A4v«rtU*qf BapraaanUttva: Unitad N««npa»ara. liambar. NMrA. Intaratata PubU»her M. E. JOHNSON, Business Manager No (uarantaa ot putdleatton of unaoUclted mate rial. L«ttera to the editor lor pub^tton muat ba alcned and conflned to too worda. Subacription Batei: 10c per copy: Six montha. ♦8.00; One Year, $S.OO (Foralcn Countrlea, M-00 par year.) With th« right.ai]0N)i«h, the impotaible is poaatt))b in the South. This mucb I hav« lit«d long enough to learn. In the past thirty yaw*, hpr- des of poor whites and blacks have migrated to the Nortji East and West for better econo mic, political and social oppor tunities. Where the migrants moved with a sense of mission, it has indeed been good for the nation especially as it relates to the minority and majority and bet ter human relations efforts be cause outside the Deep South it has been possible to prove that the “Impossible is possible” And in a world where progress must be served, only the impossible Is worth trying. And I hear tell the South is being changed for the better while being aided and abetted by outside force*. And I am told that our greatest need in the south today is for smart sales men—to sell its majority race on courageously and audacious ly joining the United States of America and leaving its dead to bury its dead. Evidences of exception appear here and there below the Ma- son-Dixon line, but the old south is still very much alive and there are a host of “Rebs” who' are still fighting the Civil War to keep the Negro in poli tical and economic slavery. And their efforts are attended with great success. By dnd large, the Negro is relegated to the broom and mop category. Negro communities are still filled with Italian gro cery stores. There are few op^ portunities for real, upgraded, progressive employment for ca pable young people in such in dustries as telephone, depart ment stores, municipal, county and state governments or inter nal revenue setups. Discrimination sits brazenly on the throne in education iii the areas where laws are made and administered. So much so that it is most difficult to un derstand why' the so-ci^l^ white protestants with their re ligion about Jesus Christ think as they think and do as they do, or m^ybe it would be bet ter to allow “people of the dwil” to walk in his footsteps more than they. Witness sports, miisic and other facets of life today where people move and have their being relaxed in the deep appreciation that people are people—be they white or black. There is a vast difference be tween being educated and be ing smart. Being educated with out being smart does not make for real progress. To do the impossible in im proving interracial relations in their country, w* need a. more highly evolved, spiritual and smart leadership. The inqx>ssible is possible to the man or people who with courage and faith go down to the Jordan, wade or swim ac- cross while reactionary fuddy- duddies forever stand procras- tinatingly on the banks daring to ask or try to do the impossi ble. To those interested: There Is enough coal and iron ore in Birmingham, Alabama to last for upwards of 100 years. There are upwards of 300,000 Negroes in a radius of fifty miles. These Negroes’ weekly payroll Is $1, 500,000. Their annual retail pur chases are $15,000,000. It’s the largest Negro market in south and the sixth in the na tion. It would seem impossible, but here is a challenge to Negro know-how and organizational ability to dominate this market in home building, furniture electrical appliances, groceries, progressive insurance, automo bile sales, banking and many other things essential to life and good living. Birmingham should be made the number one project in the South. Moreover, this would show that the Negro was able to make the greatest possible use of his earnings and could en gage in effective competition. Moreover the Negro would too prove that he is economically strong, free and smart enough to do and get done the impossi ble. riXTBOOKS teaching RACE HATE MAINST NEGnois OUR AMERICAN EDimONAL SYSTEM The Continental- Aires To Sing At Livingstone SALISBURY America’s most sensational new singing and instrumental group, the Continental—Aires, will appear at Livingstone Col lege oirJul]^ 24 at 8:15 P.M. as a summer Lyceum feature. The Continental—Aires have moved upward with unusual swiftness, having made thousands of mu sical devotees from their con cert appearance in metropolitan New York City and other large cities in the east. To he^ this singing iinit when in full concert is a gUt-edge guarantee that all patrons will leave the concert hall musically inspired and with a song in their hearts. Careful blending of voices and coordination between the accompanist is not all that makes hearing the Continental- Aires a must. W A S H I ,Ni o r O N and SMALL BUSINESS” Official Wasblngton is eom- cemad over the wav* ot pmiIp miam that swept nation with Koraaa peace talks. Tha ipiead of the, idea that peace means a depreuioQ, can, ofBciali say, talk the nation into depreastoi. * • * A oonatai-vrepacaaia pragraaa la dlsnaaa*4, bat se far oaa aeema In agceement u to the dlrootion It ahooU take. The probable I truth is thatl there is nol agreement onl the meaBuresI needed to C. W. Harder maintain a healthy economy. Actnallr, the* Cnlted BUtea should be enteriac into an era of even hlgber prosperity than at any time in the past. That Is the opinion of many economlata, • « « This school of thought points to the fact that home ownarship in the United States is at an all time high. And it is well known that far more money in repairs, remodelling, in fact lor «v«ry- thlng from lawn seed to pianos is spent on owner-occupied homes thah on rental hom4s. Econo mists also point to hi^ auto ownership whose sarvicing pro duces a huge business votuma. • • • Neither do they fed that the U. S. Is consamlnf aaywliare near the goods and sarrtoes that it can. Bvea daring a year «f ao-called Korea ^os^arityf al most ono4hird e( thei natioB’s families have Incemes o( less than f2,MM per year, over 60% of the famUiea hare inoosaea of leia than U,OM per year. Tbero la atiU a great market to be d»- Telaped by inoreaainc tha aver- age annaal family laoome. What, then, the Question is asked, creates tiie tear that with out war, or preparation lor war, (& Wttiolu! oC ladu—ftrrt Btip—i By C. WILSON HARDER the U. S. economy wOl «oHaps*T a • « The aoswar la that toa anok of tha boshiess Is oontreUod by monopoly praotlcea, by man*- faotorer owned retaO a^ets, by bnsiness praotloes wbleh daprira ind^eodeat baslaess, the major fnmlsher of employment la th* natioa, from aipairilng. a • a Many In government stQl ba> Ueve that a major lOant aspan- slon of $2 billion per yaar, as waa evidenced during tha Korean war, furnishes prosperity. Yet, the expansion ol a tew hug* In dustrial plants is but a drop In the bucket to the expenditures that could be made by the build ing at new independent stores, laetories, and the remodelling A eadfting establishments. • * • However, with the oaotral of bnsiness falling into fewer and fewer hands dae t* oatthroat oompetltlTe tactics, employment prodaolng Independent enter prises either fall by tha wayside, or die aborning. • • a At th* same time, pessimists, and those seeking i^d controls over the economy, cry that meaa- uras must be taken to stop inila- tlon bafor* the economy eollaps- es.' • * * Tet g«T*mment Itself has fssb* ieaed th* backbone of laflatlon ttaroni^ taTattoa. Last year tha aatisB speat |U bllUets oa foa and elathiagi bat Federal, stat*, and local taxes cost the pablic bmiatt. llier* can ba n* aa- sared presperlty when taxes taka iner* *f the p***!*”* laooma thaa IMd Md dothiag. a .a a Many panaceas ar* advanced. ■* a • ^ Tet maagr la WasUagtoa feel no solatlon Is possible antll eo- (oroemant e( anti-trast laws ellm- laataa prie* llslBg oanpotitlaa sad teaas ar* oat. Thera has aarr- •r boaa any sabetitnte for • cen^ Pl*My free and ope« eoeoomy la prodaolng proaperltj. hy Alfred Andersen Within and Among Dear fellow seekers...In order to understand the modem ma- jority-acquiescing State we have undertaken to roughly out line its development from pre state times. We suggested last week that it’s seed was the move to formalize and specialize tri bal society so as to make compe tition ^th nature and other tribes less hazardous. For it must have been early learned in life on this earth that when one moves from an attitude of co operation with and reverence for nature to one of seeking to conquer nature or to appease “He^’ set up a conflict situa tion breeding fear, misunder standing and mistrust. As long as primitive man approached na ture as one of its own offspring and with a family type spirit in his heart there was no place for fear, mistrust, conflict, and hostility between them. But as man set himself against nature he disinherited himseU and be came a competitor .with nature. Thus rose the class among men who claimed special skUl in ap peasing- nature, thmiiyh rftlinl and sacrifice, etc. But appeas- ment is a cowardly practice, for attempts to patch up through appealing to selfish and aquisi- tive motives while continuing to ride roughshed over the good on-the-whole and in its essence. So as man’s courage develop ed the appeasers of nature were gradually driven out and these who boldly proposed to conquer nature got their specialty ac cepted. In short, the priesthood stepped out in favor of the professional scientist and engi neer. Thus did mankind gradu ally shift from worship ol the Priesthood to worship of Sci ence. And to a large extent Sci ence has proved itself a worthy opponent of nature, having un covered countless secret codes and espionage practices in its midst. We stand today at the very height of Science’s success, though it takes a considerable “standing army” ol scientists to keep nature in control, Surely we would be lost today without this standing army ol nature conquerers and controlers. Lost, that is, unless we can re-estab lish a more cooperative mutual aid relationship with nature whereby everyone who deals with nature does so in such ct peacefuTand sympathetic way that no conquering specialist is required. We are not saying that all scientists have an attitude ol “conquering”' nature, but the bulk do. How many calls have there been for man to cease fighting one- another and concentrate on con- qiiAring man’a pnnnmnn “cn#- my”: nature? It is generally ac cepted that nature get’s in the way of man’s plans and that the ideal is to make nature completely subject to man’s conquering forces. It seems that the experiment ol separating ott from and waring with nature has become the dominant ex periment ol the western world and Science the dominant in strument for its administration. We can see how the Darwinian theory ol evolution contributed to this attitude of hostility to ward nature. No thinking and informed person today denies the overwhelming evidence in support of evolution, but the thing which we do question is how it came about. The Dar winians proposed that evolu tion was the result of nature be ing essentially competitive in a dog-eat-dog-way, that the one’s who were “fittest” in such a situation were the physically strongest, most cunning, un scrupulous, and vicious. This Is merely the logical extentlon ol the step taken back in primitive times as man ventured but from harmony with nature and fed his Impatience to “go it alone”. Inherent in the decision to look upon nature with distrust and hostility is the decision to look upon the creatures of nature with distrust and hostility...even to the point of one’s fellow men! Thus we see that the logical next step to approaching nature with competitive distrust is to approach one’s fellow earthly creatures, including fellow-men, with competitive distrust. The tendency to do this is latent in the free human soul together with tendencies toward trust, mutual aid and beneflt-of-the doubt. In fact, I suggest this choice of attitudes to be the basic moral choice in life. The choice supplies to one's -entire environment, as a whole and In its parts. To choose the com petitive distruct attitude leads logically to much of what we see in the world today. To choose the other? This we have yet to explore. Spiritual Insight “POWER TO ENDURE” By Reverend Harold Roland Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church "POWER TO ENDURE" "They departed from the Council...rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name” Acts-. 5:41. The Holy Spirit has been a power of endurance lor the children of God. What a bless ing to have such a power. The spirit of God gives courage to our fainting and faltering hearts. In this way you need a power ol endurance. I am thanklul that God has given such a power. It came long time ago as the laith- liil believers waited in prayer. Spirit lilled hearts means power for endurance. You do his will and he will supply the power. This power has sustained the laithlul over the centuries of hardships and difficulties in this blessed way of God as re vealed in Christ Jesus. What gave them power to endure? There is one answer. They wait ed in humble and reverent pray er and God endowed them with power to endure. The Holy Spirit gives power to endure for Christ and his cause. Don’t be discourag^. Don’t grow weary nor exhaust ed. Remember 11 you are his child ^at he has promised you power to endure. He promised to make you bold as lions and harmless as doves. God sends us out to stand as witnesses. But he does not send us empty and alone. He gives power to endure the struggle and battles of lile... “Ask and it shall be glven...seek and ye shall find...knock and the door will be opened...” He gives power when fair-weather friends forsake you. He gives power when you are left in the hand of the enemy. Wherever you fight for God stand and hold fast. God will give you power to en dure...Peter and John are Re joicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name...” In your battles remember you have the promise of power to endure. Thus I say to you in the words of the poet...“Stand up... stand up for Jesus...The strif* will not be long...” Every true witness needs this power of endurance. Recentty the nation has been stirred by the struggles of endurance of the young men who have come out of prison camps. They had found a power to bring them through this ruthless ordeal. The great souls of the Church have been lining against greet odds now for two thousand years. You cannot make it alone. You must have this power of endurance. Heaven’s Holy Spirit gives this power of endurance. With this power dwelling richly In their hearts they could endure lor God. With this power you too can endure in the battle you are fighting. They endured bodily suffering and mental torture. They endured hatred and bitter ness. They endured trials and tribulations. They remembered the words of the master...“IN THE WORLD YE SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION...BUT BE OP GOOD CHEER...” Fight on God has promised you power to endure. This power enables men to face with un daunted hearts all things-even death itself. Whatever life, brought they could say God has given power to endure. That is why wo hear John giving a shout of triumph on Patmos... “Pear none ol those things which thou shalt suffer...but be thou laitnful imto death and I will give thee a crown of Ule,.l I gay to every soul: FIGHT ONI GOD will give you power to endure!
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