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PAGE TWO THE CARQIJNA TIMES SATURDAY, AUG. 26, 1953 internahonai^ Fattening ikitish Frogs To Feed BrHish Snakes A recent speech delivered in the U. S. House of Repre sentatives by Congressman Lawrence H. Smith of Wis consin discloaes some very senous if not interesting tacts about the trouble the British lunpire is making in Ibgypt by declaring martial law m the city of Ismailia on the “flimsy pretext that some British soldier has been kid napped by Is^yptian authori ties." As a result British au thorities sealed off the city of a half million people and engaged in a program of searcoing all persons suspect ed of having any knowledge of the kidnapping or parti cipating in it iSays Congressman Smith further: “A short time ago on June 1, IdfT Dulles, the Secretary of State, spoke over a nation al network and related his ex perience on a trip that had just been concluded through the Middle East. At that time ASHEVILLE- ' he stated that GeA. Naguib, wno is head of the Egyptian Government, was a popular hero and ^t this soldier, he was satisfied, would pro'^de Egypt with a vigorous gov ernment which will truly serve the people.” The Con gressman then goes on fur ther to say that British action appears designed to antagon ize the Egyptian Government and finally called on the Unit ed States to withdraw all eco nomic and military assistance which the Congress voted for the British and for that coun try to “get out of the driver’s seat in ilgypt.” Add to this the tyrannical and cruel methods bi^g used by the whites in South Africa against the natives, the belli gerent attitude of southern ers in the United States on the matter of abolishing seg regation and you have a cU- rec{ but grim view of just why it is so hard to convince non-whites all over the world inat Democracy as practiced in America and Britain can possibly bring about more happiiness to them than com munism. * We agree with Congressman Smith that a continuation of such a ix)licy by Britain is capable of starting another world war which in the end will be principally paid for in American lives and money, as was the case in the other two world wars. We think the time has come when any nation or individual practicing such methods should be looked upon as a menace to all mankinds For just as long as freedogi is de nied one nation or individual, however small or significant it or he may be, the freedom of even the strongest of man kind is not safe, it appears to us that America’s practice of continuing to back Great Britain, whatever its policy toward other peoples, is only fattening frogs for snakes. Ihe Eternal Cry For Courageous Leadership This is directed to any of our Negro “leaders” in this community who would either by choice or accident fall in to the following categories: Those “leaders” who con sider the masses of the people too ignorant to know what they want as mature, good American citizens. Those “leaders” who can talk a good fight, but who are the first to run when the fight starts. Those “leaders” who with their distorted sense of values think they can play on two teams at the same time and wind up on the winning end. Those “leaders” who feel that the highest honpr that can come to a Negro is to be well-thought of by members of the opposite race. Those “leaders” whose principles and personal con victions, if they have any, are part of their “mechandi^ for sale.” And to those “leaders” who apparently don’t know that Lncle Tom’s funeral was held many years ago and that slavery as a le^I institution ended in 1865 in this country. DURHAM- This is to advise any and all of those mentioned above that the National Association for the Advancement of Colo red People adopted at its last convention a program design ed to obtain complete free dom for American Negroes in ten years. The slogan is “Free by 63.” To achieve this long over due goal, the NAACP must be represented by fearless leaders in every state, city, town and hamlet throughout America. This, of course, in cludes Asheville. It means that wherever a movement is begun for freedom and equal ity of any kind, those who are leaders under the banner of the NAACP will not be a- fraid to carry that baimer high in the name of right, de cency and justice for ^ man kind. They will not be afraid to stand up and be counted, for they know they are “on the walls” for a great cause. Freedom In ten years will not be an easy task; and it will not be accomplished un der the type of leadership of any of those mentioned above. It will only be through strug gle, sacrifice, hardwork and fearlessness on the part of our leaders that we will come in to the realities of human free dom and equality in this coun try. In this great drive toward freedom, Asheville has a great opportunity for making signi ficant contributions to this worthy effort, but great pos sibility for advancing the cause of freedom will be nulli fied if our leaders are afraid to speak out without fear. Asheville Negroes are cry ing for leadership, honest, capable and fearless leader ship. They are crying for this kind of leadership through out this country. And, lest some of us be under an illus ion to the contrary, these peo ple are accepting nothing less. Negro citizens of Asheville, just as are Negro citizens throughout America, are cry ing for leadership, honest, capable and fearless leader ship. And, lest some of us under an illusion to the con trary, these people ^e accept ing no less. DEEP SOUTH SPEAKS BY ROBERT DURR (For Calvin ISetvt Service) ^troom Facilities For Negro Patrons It has been brought to the attention of the CAROLINA TIMES that a majority of the leading uptown stores in Dur ham provide absolutely no restroom or toilet facilities for their Negro customei^, although all of them readily accept the patronage of Ne groes and apparently are oth erwise appreciative of their trade. On numerous occasions Ne gro women and children, while making purchases in several of our leading stores on Main and other streets up town, have been placed in a most embarrassing position when the need for restroom facilities arose. One Negro customer while shopping in one of our leading uptown stores suddenly became in urgent need of restroom faci lities and so informed the clerk who had just rung up a sizeable purchase of hers on the cash register. When she was politely but positively told that the store had no rest room facilities for Negroes she hurriedly attempted to OURHAM- The Annoyance Of Street Sitters Pettigrew Strrot in Dur- police department needs to in- If most of the managers of ham is becoming infested with form some of the owners or these businesses, who allow too many street sitters. The managers of businesses on the practice or indulge in practice has become so pre- Pettigrew Street that the it themselves, would spend valent that it has become an- sidewalk was made to walk more time cleaning up their noying to iMth pedestrians on and not for a sitting room places or studying the modern and automobile drivers. The or parlor. methods^ of merchandising make it to the nearby home ofiSce of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany. She got as far as the elevator where to her em barrassment and those on it she relieved hei^lf. Well, this newspaper has never thought enough of its fi nancial security or its adver tising revenue from mer chants or business firms of any group to stand by and see a ^oss wrong perpetrated. Its faith in the ultimate triumph of right is one of the pillars of our foundation and from it we will not be removed. It so happens that all mer chants in Durham are favor ed with a Negro market that has been acclaiined as the most lucrative per capita in America. That any of them would wish to enjoy that mar ket without providing the s^e privileges for it as pro vided for others is beyond our comprehension. The CAROLINA TIMES is insisting that in all stares catering to both white and Negro trade in Durham, and other cities for that matter, restroom facilities for Negro patrons be provided. It is our sincere hope that we will not have to go beyond the writing of this editorial, a copy of which will be sent to everjr leading store in Durhand catering to both white and Negro trade and a copy of which will be sent to every Negro church, with the re quest that it be read from the pulpit. The policy of not providing restrooms for Negro patrons is not only wrong but we think it is criminal if not un lawful. We do not think that the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company should be expected to provide such facilities for Ne^oes for every strife doing business up town. We urge that for the sake of the health, lives and in the name of conunon de cency that the stores in the uptown district set about im mediately to provide these facilities for their Negro pa trons. SATURDAY Chc Cinteff AUG. 29, 1953 L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher C. M. ROSS, Managing Editor PublUiwd Every Satunlajr by the UimXD PUBUSHKRS. Incorporated at Sit K. Fettlciww St. entered «a aecoM) claaa matter at tiie Poat Office at Duriuun. North CaroUn* under tbe Act of March ». tSTS. national Adverttaiiic BepreaentaMve: Interetate Umied NewapaiMr*. Member, NNPA. M. E. JOHNSON, Business Manager Ko guarantee of publicatkHi of usaoUdted mate rial. Letter! to the editor for publication muat be aigned and confined te 500 wortU. Subecriptlati Batea; 10c per oopy; montfaa, *3.00: One Year. *3.00 (Fonicn Oouatrlee, |4.00 HOLY- FREEDOM GRUSAOE BIRMINGHAM I don’t always agree with the procedure of the NAACP, but there is no way of getting a- round the fact that the NAA CP meets a need in America, which is not otherwise met. There are forces In America which will not yield to any thing bat legal pressure. There are certain Inalienable rights which can not be made secure apd maintained except by ded icated, capable and adaptable application of legal force with tbe constltntion of the United States of America as its point of reference. This Is because Americans are by and large Inunatnre and selfish, who bellev^in the philosophy of the “strong taking from the weak and tbe mart taking from the strong.” There are. those who believe in counseling together, per sistant persuasion in getting done what ought to be done in the field of human and civil rights. This technique is most effective in the matters Involv ing mature. But even when they are doing good, eVll is always present and must be controlled by force until the morning comes to rout the evil. Application or threat of ap plication of legal fbrce where legal rights are violated will always be necessary. And ade quate operating capital to sup port and feed our legal sold iers Is a necessity for which there is no substitute. The NAACP’s ten year cru sade to banish legal segrega tion and discrimination is a Holy Crusade to which every Negro in America should con tribute generously and sys tematically for the next ten years until victory is won. For this is a struggle to crush the head of the poisonous adder of enforced segregation and Its body should be cremated and scattered to the four winds. There must be something about this struggle which will enable us to impose upon our selves painful austerity mea sures with which to give us the strength to make sacrlflees such as a meal a day, desired wearing apparel, commercial entertainment, cigarettes, al coholic beverages and what have you so that all of ns may share in the great pri vilege of making the NAACP Freedom Crusade. NEVEB IN HISTOET WILL THE 91,000,000 BUT 80' MUCH FOR 80 MANY. WASHINGTON AND 'SMALL BUSINESS’ There is growing Washington concern over Increased business failures.With more than 700 firms a month going to tbe wall, fail ures nowexceed 1050 beforeKorea. • * « Naturally, there are many dif fering schools of thought in Washington oni problem. Econ omists imbued with Big Bnal- ness ressoning, aeeit to sell the- ory keener] competition, lack of exper-| lence or capi tal is majsr failore reasim.' e e « C. W. Harcle^ But facts do not agree. * * * NormaUy, business fallBres •re due to lack ot trade, with retailers hit flrat. Bat in the pres ent situation, wholesalers show biggest failure increaaa. ms an Important Caot Ml cause wiu)lesalers, by and largs, are not shoe string operators. The very nature d tlM whole saling business requires consid erable capital and experience. This condition Inevltsble. Thera are two major reasons. • « * One Is whulesaleis nnist stock goods made by firms who (dosely control sn^y and prices. « * • But many wholesalers, instead of representing these manufac turers, find they are actually competing with the manufactur ers on a different price basis, e * • Manufactnrers we more and more putting in their own retail outlets who buy direct from fac- tmrles im favored deals, and un- dersdl tlie wholesaler’s own cns- tomers. In otJier ossas, big re* tailers are aold direct. • • • Somatime ago, in tire dis count case, Fedaral Trade Com- ® Nitiotyl y>dtr«tioa of |>aiptnd«nt Bu«lpw By C. WILSON HARDER mission made ruling to alimtai- ate double dealing. Bat dne to behind He In Washlngtoa, ttJs mllng has yet to be enforo^ • • • The other reason is taxes. • • « Many wholessim are taking less “take home pay" eat el bnsiness, yet assets are bigger. • • * Wholesalers, to do buslnass. keep warehouses filled. Yet re* placement stocks keep creeping up in price. This in itseU ^st- pates working capital, but tax situation bites more heavUy. * * e Taxes are worth ot tbe bwlnass, aat ae- tiuUly bear no relatlMi to tte amount of Uquld caah. Thus, a warehoose stocked with mee- ohandise oan be In eas tax bracket. Bat tf tlmt steak Is seid« and the «4u>lesalar restodn at a griM Jacrease, hia aat worth bia«w*»ia« a%, wUeh is tash 1^, even tbomh bis eeak pesi* ttoa has datwlerated. * • • llien vrtiaB goveramsnt tallura to ooforee anti-tmst laws permit^ the manufacturers who sold the wholesaler to dinnp goods direct, there Is ohsos. yearly, even thoa^ go^ In a wholesale warehoose are aeto* any goads In tnnslt. e « • It Is also significant hi heavy percentage of current business failures, a prinolpal unpaid cred* itor is Federal Oovemmaot for loipaid taxes. • e e Tbe pr^em Is not wIthoMt eolation. • • • But to forestall Ihe ssimnmlt Golgotha now boflding up^ gov ernment offloials must quickly recognize true nature ot the problem; take immediate steps to correct it STRAIGHT AHEAD BY OLIVE A. ADAMS (FOR GLOBAL) NEW YORK We iilte to tx>ast about how comfortable and convenient we have made our modem life, and how we are certain to leave our children a stream- -lined, healthy world in wiilch to live. That’s fine. But, if we are not careful, our children will be literally at a loss for they would not permit per sons to p{)rk themselves In* chairs in front of their estab lishments nor have time to do it themselves. Last week one driver who desired to park his car neat a grocery store on Pettigre^w Street in order that he might purchase his week-end sup plies was unable to do so b^ cause of one street sitter be ing too close to the edge of the sidewalk with the back of his chair protruding out into the street. Disgusted the driv er went on el^where to pur chase his groceries when the street sitter stubbornly refus ed to move further to the cen ter of the sidewalk. We trust this mention of the annoying practice will put an end to it and that the police department will not nave to be called on to clear the sidewalk on Petti^w street of street sitters in or der that pedestrians may use them without having to walk around chairs and the feet of sitters projecting halfway a- cross the sidewau. words in Which to express their appreciation. We seem to be using up all the good ones to describe the commonplace and extol the mediocre. In pounding ont millions and millions of words yearly In praise of everything from mo tor cars to cosmetics, we have wrung our vocabulary dry. Gone are the choice phrases we used to trot out only for very special people or oc casions. Time was when, if you re ferred to a person as disting uished, he was just tiiat—an individual who had reached the heights; an Inspiration to young and old. A “man of dis tinction" these days may not be any such thing, but he may have dolled himself up to look the part and so he gets the label- And it is pinned on him quite freely, so that by now 'we have forgotten what the term really means. Tbe word “shocking” naed to convey violent reaetloa to a given altnatlon. Now It’s a shade of irfnk. “A truly great performance” was a ptirase reserved for the likes ot Paderewski or Tos canini. Now the words often refer to the emoting of a grade B actor in a grade B movie, or to the operation of the latest number to roll off an auto mobile assembly line. In fact, we live in an age of “great” things — “great” cigarettes, "great” toothpaste and “great” beer. (Pleafe turn lo Page Seven) “BUT THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS COMMITTEE PLANS TO HAVE HARMONY” SOUNDS AWFUL f Spiritual Insight “AN UNDESIRABLE END” By Reverend Harold Roland PASTOR, MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH *' . . .The wicked shall be turned into bell, and all the nations that forget God .. .” Psa. 9:17. SIN HAS A TRAGIC PRICE TAG. All human experience bears testimony to the truth fulness of this solemn Biblical truth. Yes, history gives un deniable evidence of this Spir itual Insight. He who commits the acts cannot escape the pen alty. The writer reveals the stark reality of moral cor ruption and spiritual blindness for individuals and nations. Is this a truth or is it a lie? All evidence proves it to be the truth. Men tried to say it was not true. Men have tried to beat the rap with the moral law. Men have tried for cen turies to call God a He. God does not lie. God’s word is for ever and eternally true! CALL INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS to the witness stand and they must testify to the truthfulness of God’s word. Call Individual who tried to violate God’s law and get a- way with it. Yon cannot es cape! The bound of Heaven will track you down. Some can testify from tbe undesir able endings of failure, shame and ruin. Some can testify from tear-stained cheeks and agonized hearts. Some would speak ont of broken health. Some will speak from the heart-rending tribulations of broken homes. The stupidity of Eden Is forever repeated:: We believe the Devil’s lie rather than God’s tmth! CALL FOR MORE evidence from “THE NATIONS THAT FORGET GOD . . .” Where are they? They strutted in pride. They continued the sins of oppression and injustice. They sinned against God and man. What was the result? They came to a tragic and a painful end. They cry out from thV graveyard of nations: GOD’S WORD IS TRUE! GOD HAD THEIR NUM BER! God’s got your number i too! You cannot Ignore God’s ' word and get away with It. ‘ EVERY VIOLA’nON OF the moral law carries a stain and a penalty. Sin mars and corrupts the personality of man. The stain in the soul is painful. Remorse wilt seize the soul with its painful grip. Its fruits are tears, agony, sickness, fear, distress andln^ ner conflict of soul. There is something within that makes you uneasy and uncomfortable when you mistreat your fellow human being. Don’t fool your self. . ."THE WICKED SHALL BE TURNED INTO HELL.” WHEN YOU ABE TROUB LED by the evil designs of men remember that It will end. Yon have Ctod’s word. Yon can count on God’s word: Evil will come to an undesir able end. Yon have God’s guarantee; BIGHT WILL WIN! GOD WILL REWARD good ness . . r Tha^rd-knoweth the way of the righteous . . .” God, too, has promised a pen alty for sin. There is no es cape . . . The way of the im- godly shall perish . . .” FOL LOW THE GOOD AND YOU WILL HAVE THE BLESSING OF LIFE AND PEACE. by Alfred Andersen Within and Among Dear fellow seekers.... Last week we came again to the realization that the moral di- iemnas in which Western Civilization finds itself in creasingly enmeshed have their roots in what we have called the meciumistic phi losophy of life, the philosophy that the Universe and all in it is nothing but complex ma chinery. This philosophy has its most serious consequences when applied to the politics of the nation, state; for it is here that we find both the most power and the most bankruptcy in the moral re- . sources required for its right administration. Here is where the mechanistic politics of ma jority rule becomes most for malized and ~ exacting, and thus most departed from the saving grace of that human moral sense which knows “from the heart” when a thing “ain’t right” or when it is! We have tried to show'that the United Nations would lust be one step farther along this mechanistic totalitarian path. Much as the various notions need te be restrained, and much as it is “all to the good” for them to organize to re strain one another, they don’t hav^ the spiritual resources to do anything but a “botched up'’ compromising, expedient job of it by typical politician moral standards. If we expect more than this of the United Nations we shall be not only disappointed- but guilty of ir responsibility as welL For the disease of modem society is at the roots, not at the top. The need is for a new principle, much as we used to salvage what we can of the sad and diseased crop in the fields. For the mechanistic philosophy has been put on concrete form throughout man's institutions. The horrors are greatest on the national and international level and it is well that we should try to control and dis cipline here in the “non-vio lent” manner we have indica ted. But the real need is for getting to work on the founda tions of a new society on a new philosophy of life. It seems necessary to do this from the ground up, literally. The very attitude towa^ the soil must change from look ing upon it as a completely known “chemical factory” to looking upon it humbly as the foundation of the mysterious life process, a vertltable tml- verse of living processes, bal anced and integrated among its various aspects in delicate poetic symphony. As has been noted before, the first step is to “slow> down” our lives, to dissociate from those formal mechanistic assoclatioiA which are the support and sustenance for the mechanistic society and thus the mechaniatic state. Yes, It means withdrawing from citizenship in all majority rule governmental units, from membership hi all majority rule organizations, including ostensible idealistic and re ligious institutions. Such with drawal trees one. It gives one time to think, time to search one’s soul; but first, to search for one’s soul. Thus treed one can look around for good re lationships. And good rela tionships can be had even writh secular otfictals. For the himian spirit will not be entirely enslaved and mechanized. The soul ot man ultimately revolts and looks for ways to reach out beyond the confines of formal struc ture. This is true of govern ment officials as well as of others. But such relationships with existing organizations can only be transitional. In build ing a new society on genuine ly spiritual foundations we must reach out to embrace the groping soul from what ever direction. But we must have something to offer them. We must offer them a path to “salvation” in a “Kingdom of God”...“withln and among”! Next week we shall start presenting the details of such a new direction which chal lenges us from all sides. We shall attempt to interpret what we called the “organic philosophy” as against tbe spirit-kllllng mechanistic one which we have lived with so long...and this “from the ground up”. We shall go from treatment of the soil to treat ment of higher forms of life to treatment of one another thus to family relations, com munity relations and all others which make ufc our »o- cial complex. In the mean time, “think oti tiiese things” fellow seekers.
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