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
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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."
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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.
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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,
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poIWbere, FI ga dami
tt aaeaw to aM aaw ttaS 1
moril pealsa to ha a vatf
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aad wsl tod papvat SSI a sM
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Be pcoiMhly kaaae soaaa skMrt*
■ightod oompsttter wU ssB *a
co9erati«a «t Hm Fadsnl mm-
ployass aomraana «t Vlsksbaek
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Uotaed for
deal retoflesa aad
No Washtogto* obaarMtlasM^
prised over empkiyass
. a a a
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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,
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•’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.
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