North Carolina Newspapers

PAGITWO THE CABOUNA TOflS SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1953 STATE— mm SHOULD SUPPORT THE m MILLION BOND ISSUE If the lack of interest ibown here Iwt Saturday in register ing for the $72 million school bond issue is a sample of what wait on all over the state, a lot of hard work is going to have to be done between now and October 3 to arouse vot ers to the point of supporting the measure. A check made by the Caboldia Tmcs on the two precincts located in the Hayti section of Durham dis closed that not a single per son registered at either of them last Saturday. We un derstand the same lack of in terest was manifested in oth er sections of the city. With two more ^turdays left for registration, persons favoring the bond issue should get busy and insist that those who have not al ready done so register on one of the two days left. Many young i^rsons have become of age since the last reigstra- tion and will need to register if they are to be able to vote GENERAL— in the October 3 election. Likewise many Mrsons have moved from the precinct where they last voted and many have moved from other cities and therefore will need to have a change of registra tion or register in their new precinct. Whatever happens in the school cases now before the United States Supreme Court Negro voters of the state should vote for the bond issue because even under a segre gated system a vote for it is a vote for progress. Should the Supreme Court abolish segregation it is much more desirable to be integrated in to schools of high quality than those of poor quality. As they now stand North Carolina public schools are in such a sad plight that even the $72 million bond issue will not entirely remedy the condi tion, to say nothing of re medying the irreparable loss to the spirituality of a child who is set aside in another school solely on account of his color. It is this latter is sue that will make the con tinuation of the fight for in tegration necessary regard less of what the state may provide for the Negro child in physical plants, equipment and teaching personnel. The CAROLINA TIMES, therefore, calls upon every voter in the state to cast h^ or her ballot in favor of the bond issue but to not surrend er one inch in the struggle to secure for our children first- class citizenship that can on ly come where the humblest man or woman is afforded such without regard to his race, color or cre^. We call upon them to stir from their lethargy of last Satiirday and insist' that others who have not registered do so during' the next two Saturdays in or der that the bond issue may be carried on October 3. DO WE HAVE JANUS IN THE WHITE HOUSE? Negro voters in this coun try need not become excited over the fact that President Eisenhower has appointed a Negro as Registry of the Treasury. Negro appointees to this particular office go back as far as Reconstruction days, and the President of the United States in 1953 opened no new door for the race that had not been previously open ed by several of his pre decessors. On the same day that the announcement was made of the Registry of the Treasury appointment, an other was carried in the daily press that the government had capitulated to southern reactionaries by dropping the anti-discrimination clause in the farm loan contracts. Negro leaders of the coun try, especially those in the Republican Party, must not GENERAL— forget that in the forefront of those objecting to the non discrimination clause was Governor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, also a recent appointee of President Eisen hower as delegate to the United Nations. It will prob ably mean little to the pre stige and influence of this country with the many repre sentatives of colored peoples in the United Nations to know that sitting with them is a representative of the United States who not only defies the Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations Char ter, the Constiution of his own country and every other document or law that would ^ve equality to all men, but in addition objects to a non discrimination clause in farm loan contracts of this coun- try. These same representatives of the overwhelming millions of colored peo^es through out the world probably al ready know that Governor Byrnes has declared that be fore he will accept a ruling of the United States Supreme Court, abolishing segregation in the schools of Ms state, that he will close them. It thus appears that President Eisenhower is about the greatest Janus since the two- faced deity was established in Rome many centuries ago. What face Mr. Eisenhower will show next remains yet to be seen, but whatever one it is, if he follows his past rec ord, it will be different from the first. Sooher or later the present occupant of the White House is going to discover that “you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the peo ple all of the time.” DEEP SOUTH SPEAKS BY BOBERT DURR (For C«Mn Nmo$ Service) STRICTLY BUSINESS, AS USUAL Because of the practice of racial semgation in the South is legally sanctioned, socially acceptM, politically exploitable, and economical-i. ly profitable, does it neces sarily follow that most white southerners believe this racial discriminatory practice to be morally right? We would challenge such a conclusion as being logical ly unsound, and therefore take exception to the state ment that “Most white South erners believe in segregation” as was written in the Sep tember 7 issue of NEWS WEEK magazine by a staff writer who, in an article on national affairs, was speculat ing on the possible outcome of the school senegation cases now before the U. S. Supreme Court. The writer, William A. Emerson, Jr., chief of the magazine’s Atlanta’s Bur eau, in making such a state ment, was apparently tr^ng to justify the courses of ac tion that South Carolina’s Byrnes and Georgia’s Tal- madge have threatened to take should the U. S. Supreme Court rule unconstitutional segregation in the public school systems, and by the same token justify any other resultant opposition to an in tegrated public school system in the South. In the matter of racial dis crimination and segregation, we do acknowledge that most white southerners, and too many Negroes for that mat^ ter, do engage and acquiesce in such practices; however. We emphatically deny the conclusion that their ac- quiescense is final proof of their basic belief in this evil. How many of those who have fought, killed and died in war believe war to be morally right—or for that matter even want to participate in such a destructive and morally de grading evil? We submit that most of those white southerners who NEWSWEEK claimed believ ed in segregation do not be lieved in its basic or moral righteousness at all, but that they have merely learned to practice the various forms of racial prejudice as a result of its legal sanction, it social acceptability, its political ad vantages; and at the most of all reasons, its varying de grees of economic value. It was because of its eco nomic value, that prejudice according to race was first practiced. No longer able to justify slavery morally or theologically, southern plan tation owners, in order that they mighty preserve the status quo which meant huge profits to them, began to just ify slaveiy on the basis of the slaves being racially inferior. Following the Civil War, powerful Northern financial interests seized upon this de vice as a way in which wages might be kept at a low level. With the labor of the free Negro becoming available in increasing numbers, white industrialists were continual ly threatening dissatisfied, under-paid white workers with their possible replace ment by free Negro labor . . . and they were replaced in many instances. However, the success of this vicious' scheme of ex^ ploitation in human misery is dependent on the exploiters’ ability to keep the races dis trustful and suspicious of each other. This is done my keep ing the races apart through the promotion of measures designed to segregate the two groups. The pubhc school is a natural place to begin, for the earlier one begins to ac cept segregation as the nor mal way of life, the more dif ficult it will be to abandon and renounce this pattern of thinking and doing later in life; notwithstanding the ef forts of any groups and indi viduals in the other direction. Contrary to popular belief, it is not so much t|ie white w o r k i n g-class Southerner who is opposed to the break ing down of racial segrega tion; instead the main opposi tion to breaking any pattern of segregation and c^crim- ination in the south is con centrated among powerful northern financial interests who control most of the wealth of the ^uth and a- mong those southern political demagogues, who are both the unwitting dupes serving the base ends of the moneyed in terests iand who know that every step toward first-class citizenship by Negroes means that they are much nearer to the end of their rope of cor rupt, political domination. To those northern financial interests, patterns of racial SATURDAY CtoCai§ifaC«g L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher SEPT. 12, 1953 C. M. ROSS, Managing Editer PubU«hed Every Saturday by tba UNITSD PTJBUSKERS. Incorporated at 911 E. PattJcrcw St Katand a« aaaopd daai matter at tha Poat Oftloa at Durluun, North CaroUa* undar tba Act of llanii 3, 1179. MatiooaJ AdvartMof Bapraaantattina; Intaratata Unitad Nawapapara. Kambar. MlfPA. M. E. JOHNSON, Business Manager No (uarantaa of publlcaUon ot unaoUdtad mala rial. Lattara to tfm aditor for publication muat ba ■Icnad and conflnad ta 600 worda. Subacrlptlan Bataa; l*c par aimr; ttz numllia. fS.00; Out Yaar, 9S.OO (Potaicn Countiiea, *4.00 P«r yaur.) The Domettic Iron Curtain When thinking Negro Ameri cana go into big offices of cre dit organizations, such as Gene ral Motors AcceptanM Corpora tion, General Electric Credit Corporation and others—through whom John Q public pays for his automobiles, radios, electri' cal appliances and a galore of other items—their hearts are made to bleed as (hey see a sea of white men and women and girls taking in money and giv ing receipts for Mr. and Mrs. Negro America’s money, which provides a great portion of the bread and butter for the white employees but only a crumb for a Negro Janitor or maid. Sepia Americans buy billions of dollars worth of automobiles but there is seemingly an un written law in sections of the United States which is against their being employed by auto mobile dealers to sell automo biles even to Sepia-Americans except as fish hook sales hust lers for white salesmen on a ^ictly hand out basis. And where there is some attempt to qualify, they nm into unsur- mountable difQculties in get ting banks to finance their operations. This is the situation in a mul titude of areas of America. And this is representative of an as pect of the domestic Iron Cur tain which excludes all but the pale face. The National Baptist Conven tion will be meeting in Miami and Denver come September. From them should come memo randa on this unholy situation to the automobile manufactur ers, home appliance manufac turers and other merchandise and credit corporations, on the national level. Later state con ventions could bombard local dealers and subsidiaries by re questing these ^tups to accord simple Justice and a square deal in the employment of equitable employment opportunities to all Americans, regardless of color Memoranda might go forth to the American Bell Telephone Co., especially in the Deep South. Discrimination along these related lines has just about reached the i unpardonable sin state in the South and bids fair to affect the whole nation with a cancerous condition beyond control of any earthly power. It may well destroy civilisation much sooner than any atom or hydrogen bomb. ,This situation leads to the pro duction of hate and world kUIers of the American dieaai as ex hibited when a young Ne^ woman with a companion appli ed at an applicant’s drivers li cense test bureau in Birming ham recently. The driving test officer in quired, "Which of you wants to take the test?” His gaze was di rected toward the young wo man’s companion who answered, “The young lady.” The officer shot back, “What young ladyT I don’t see nothing but a nlMer gal.” The young lady, who is a re cent graduate of 'Talladega Cbl- lege, was gruffly instructed by the officer, "Well, get in and let’s get it over with.” To which she replied: "No, 1 don’t want to take the test, becauae I know I could never pass with your at' titude.” To which the cop re plied, "I don’t give a'd—.” In a court there are lawyers who refer to Negro litigates as "This nigger.” Once in a while one will use the word, “Negro” instead of this witness, the com plaint or defendant. It is hard to see where real progress is being made by the white people of the South. And there is no such thing as genuine progress by blacks in the South, especially where there is no pro gress by whites in the matter of human relations which is just respect and appreciation of the essential dignity of all God’s children. Big business can tear down the Domestic Iron Curtain, behind which all kinds of devices are manipulated and directed to «c- plolt. It ought to follow Presi dent Eisenhower’s pledge to do all in its power to destroy dis crimination in its operation and thereby become a refuge tor those who would flee economic and political slavery. For then it would save America from be ing destroyed by the arrogant and greedy un-Americans with in. Besides, it’s later than we think, I am quite sure. “But Mr. Presi(lcnt, Can He Be Persuaded Without Force?” prejudice mean but one thing- profits!! It make a great deal of difference to fHem as to whether they are willing to pay $2.00 per hour in New York or Connecticut or move South and produce the same product with labor bought at only $1.25 an hour or, in most cases, less. And with regard to those political demagogues, it makes a big difference in their political fortunes if they have to account to more than 15 per cent of potential voting population. No, these two groups do not want any forms of segrega tion abolished; and they would have you believe, through such articles as ap peared in NEWSWEEK, that most white southerners are opposed to its abolition. We seriously doubt this to be the case. And we honestly believe that the abolitimi of segrega tion in public school systems in the ^uth will be accepted by most white southerners in good faith and that it will herald the advent Of a new day in the social and eco nomic well being of both the white and Negro working man in the South. 4 '3d Spiritual Insight . By Reverend Harold Roland PASTOR, MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH "Realizino your hope to the very end..imitate those who inherit the promise by their steadfatt faith..."Heb. 6:12. Hope, the light of the soul, is a mighty pillar of Christian character. Hope is a power that steadies the soul. It is an an chor of the soul; a flame that lights the dark pathway. Just think on the wonders and beau ties of this spiritual power call ed hope. It is not just natural hope; the Christian’s Ihope is rich, powerful and abiding. O, the wonder and power of Chris tian hope! It dawns in the soul when we turn from sin to God. Jt is the bright flame of the spirit that lights the candle of faith in the soul. Hope is the fruit of faith and acceptance of Christ the blessed savior. The Chrigtianli hope l&_groun- ded and rooted in Christ. This hope comes to the weak and sin ful soul through an act of faith. WASH!NGrON AND "SMALL BUSINESS” One rMSoo behind drive to M- duM govanunant «mploye«i Is balitf a Mg amijr c jtovnmnrat joUioMers Is graatar liMat to aatlaa Hian any loralca army. Wlttory mastafaa aedallstle •r oammimMia dk4atMi by ai haie carps IH^ ins OK Um tas- payers. In time' tha eerreehre* •aeet tt Itvlacj withMl pro daoiag aftsal waifB mantsl praeasm efl (•Taramaatl isUMlders. a a a O.W. Hardar An exampto g tills aoeialistte thinking among govanunant •»»> ployaas li by lioeal No. US, Federatim of Federal Em- ploycaa, In Vicksburg, Miasia-. sippi. * 0 * TUs Btonp le^ (omltiir*, a^ plljuices, anto aoeasMrlaa, apart* luff gooda and (aoaral merobaa- dlaa to Mil aa nmH^aOt basis, a a a ti*tt«rt to manufacturers ara bluntly coarciva. Stating that their store, callad tha Federal Smployeci Cooperativa, will sanre 3300 Federally employed famiUei in Vickiburg, tha manu facturer is tacitly threatened with boycott lor non-«ompUaaoe. a a • The letter itatass "Becaiise at the fsot that tlw merohaodlae we wiB handle wffl be sM an m rn^pium basia, ttaira is Uttia laabt tte oooperatlTa wfll oam- aaaad practtoally aU tite bnatneaa far these lines from the tSM fomUlea served Iv ear oaopara- ttva. For thia reaaoB, wa bdleve that tt will be advaataceoos to yoor oeacem to gnat ns sa^a prtvllagss for year ^ednot% aa' these psivlleces wH virfiatty predada ai^ sales af rimitor Unas to Federal ea^toyees to tua vtotaity." a • a Federal an^dogrmeat supports > irniail rtdMUai it laiinminl —lii By C. WILSON HARDFR almoit ao% at tha poptaatlon. a a a Tha president e( one Brm aa- lacted wrote a very thontht-pre- veidag reply. a a a Stotlng It apparently was tba intentiaD ot tte Federal employ ees to alimlnato retailers and wbolasalers, ha wondered vrttat percentage o their lalariei are paid by the people thay desire to pot out ot Iwisiness. a a a Bs thsa ato«idi the ilsk at lealH the bestosae St sue lasdl- iea to tlM Tlihsfrg ana, w» vm a sMtoaa thsaat loaa way st Mto as «a have knoMs aad laasasi sf H Smimt the laal umtmj ant a haK. Na, eeatreMbfai poIWbere, FI ga dami tt aaeaw to aM aaw ttaS 1 moril pealsa to ha a vatf iiiwr f aad wsl tod papvat SSI a sM a a a Be pcoiMhly kaaae soaaa skMrt* ■ightod oompsttter wU ssB *a co9erati«a «t Hm Fadsnl mm- ployass aomraana «t Vlsksbaek a a a Uotaed for deal retoflesa aad No Washtogto* obaarMtlasM^ prised over empkiyass . a a a tt Is taeagatosd empiayea raaha asa theae wiw hsitofa aMMW to iatto aai oaouns a a a And hssa is the war mmf Washtoglee obsarvaes rttK la the VldiriMirg aattw wUh a aaaa* man sayioc, a a a •’Am aawatohed hfssawal is mmra laagareas to tha aatlSMl waHsra thaa tkraa lad An«r Mi Hope for the Christian is an indestructible pillar of Christian character. Paul talked about this power of hope in the mes sage to the Corinthians:..“Now ...abideth ....hope ” We cherish our hope. We cling to this hope in Christ Jesus. We build on this hope. We stand on this hope amid the changing and distress ing scenes of this life. What is life, without this hope? Without it life lacks meaning and pur pose? Without this hope life sinks into an endless night of darkest despair. Without this hope life is an endless series of frustrating confusions. The doc tor the other day told the tragic story of PWs who died because they had not this blessed hope to keep and sustain them. They lost their grip on life because they had no suslainihg fib^.TT&e test of hope comes in the dark and tragic hour. Hope proves its worthiness in the hard and rough places of life. Hope anchors the soul for life’s stormy journey. Life is not all sunshine. The heart gets heavy. The skies grow dark. The burden of the heavy-laden seems unbearable. Hope bright ens the way. Hope glvere song in the darkness. Hope makes the burden of the heavy-laden bearable. Hope whispers cour age to fight a little longer. Hope steadies us when we have ex hausted our power and things won’t come out right. Hope is an anchor of the soul..,“Which hope we have as an anchor of soul... sure and steadfast...” Every mortal creature can share in the great hope which is in Christ Jesus. How? Repent and accept Christ by faith. Ac cept this hope. Make it s mighty anchor for your soul in these stormy and distressful soenes of life...“Anchoring the soul to it safe and secure....” by Alfred Anderten Within and Among Dear fellow seekers^.We have only ^ratched the surface in our discussion of what reverence toward the soil means concrete ly. A friend of ours claims that he looks on his vegetable plants (and he has a huge garden) as his children. He told with deep feeling of the exhileration he experiences when he walks in his garden in the morning and notes the growth that has taken place since his last observation, and as he meditates on the dy namics of life on this basic level. He says he really believes that his “children” respond to his loving care, for he always seems to have the most enviable of gar dens wherever he goes. The reward for gardening with "loving care” is not so much tlie quantity harvested as the quality. Vegetables that have been grown by way of considering very' tenderly the natural soil and climatic intri cacies, that have displayed the health to “survive” lurking pests and microbes, such foods come with the blessings of Mother Earth Herself, or God forseeth! Quantitatively the crop may be mediocre, and thus be of little interest to commer cial agrlctilture. But by taste they display "fheir own excuse for being”. Have you noticed the “blaaa” flavor of so many comercial foods. To be sure, procesaad icMds are “doctored up” with artificial flavors and colorings. Hie commercial interacts have leamad how to hoodwink the nu>dem taste for food just as they have learned how to hood wink the modem taste for jus tice and good old faihioned right. In fact there la hardly a dis criminating taste left in the mouths of modem man. It takes too long to taste; it takes medi tation on that which is tasted, and an appreciation for the ef forts that have gone into mak ing available that which is tast ed. Taste is almost completely mistrusted by modern nutrition- ist$. They would rather refer to their test tubes and caged rats and work out John’s lunch by statistics. Lest we be misunderstood, we are not blaming the nutrition ists, for they are essentially right within the mechanistic framework so generally accept ed. It's a rare animal today which will display faith in his own taste as a determiner of what and how much he should eat and shouldn’t. Yet most moderns are right in not trusting their present dis torted and uneducated taste. There is faulty taste in feed se lection as there is faulty taate in art and in politics. Tasto must be cultivated and nurtured. It grows through trying and test ing, and through sensitivity to the experimental procaas. Our modem tastes are unreliable be cause we have not appreciated the potential or development which lays dormant there, thus we have lost the opportunity. But if we are to build a new way of life on new value founda tions we muat begin with our natural and inherent potmtials or value Judgement. Develop ment o} “good taste” goes along with gdod living in general. For such a development requires a basic criterion for better and worse, a basic “senifc of value” sinking Ito roots into the dq>ths of the soul. All tastes by this view, are organically relatod and interdependent; and thus does the whole “physical” world take on a spiritual aurora. A tree is not just a tree, nor a to- matoe just another tomatoe. When one’s sense of values are thus organically integrated every Judgement is a value judgement and a valuable Judge ment, or it represents going con versation with the Supreme Value Itself. beveloping a good relation ship With the soil, and with the products of the soil, is religion in the concrete. It requires all the religious disciplines and the* true religious spirit. Only as this relationship with life’s founda tions is set right can any man- made edifice be expected to stand. New Look In Lincoln Univ. Orientation JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Both new and former students will find something “new” add-, ed to the Orientation and Open ing programs at Lincoln Univer sity September 8-lS. New stu dents,are being greeted by upper classmen at the railroad station,* bi^ depot and upon arrival by car. This face to face "Howdy” is a follow up of letters, i>er- sonally signed, directed to the newcomers we^ ago. Tnrou^- out the week the “old” and "new” will chum together, ex change leamingi and go through a w^ designed orientation. (Please turn to Page Seven)