PAGE TWO.
STATE—
THECAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY. OCT. 10. 19S3
A VOLUNTAR Y FEPC NEEDED IN
EVKY COMHUNIIY
Over the entire front of em
ployment in North Carolina
the situation is getting no bet
ter so far as Negroes are con
cerned. Although gains have
been made in certain areas
and many Negroes are now
holding jobs from which they
were once almost entirely
barred, the overall picture is
cloudy with members of the
race being slowly but surely
pushed out of employment.
In Durham, Winston-Salem
and Reidsville where Negroes
once were the main source of
employment in the tobacco
factories, they are continous-
ly being replaced by whites,
and in many instances are
outnumbered b^r them. The
installation of more and bet
ter machines in the tobacco
factories has in the first place'
cut down on the number of
overall employees, and when
there is somebody to be fired
the Negro most always is the
first to get the boot. Opera
tion of the new machines re
quires more technical skill
but less man power, and, al
though Negroes are just as
capable to operate the mach
ines, they are kept from do
ing so by a policy that de
mands they not be allowed to
perform skilled labor which
requires higher wages and
better working conditions.
Thus the Negro is kept in
the lower salary bracket
where the most menial tasks
are to be performed and the
pay is generally the lowest.
Even his membership in or
ganized labor means little or
nothing, for here he finds the
policy likewise supported by
white labor that in most in
stances requires that he be
long to a segregated union or
an auxiliary where the policy
is not made but handed down
by the white unit.
Although it is rather late,
we think we sense a begin
ning of unrest among Negro
labor leaders who are at last
beginning to awaken to the
fact that they are being dup
ed by a p>olicy that does not
permit them to be upgraded
where the pay is highest. We
think we see in the not too
far distance a new type of
Negro labor leader who will
demand that there be one
labor union composed of both
white and Ne^o members
and that Negroes be in on the
policy making end of the
transaction. -What the reac
tion will be within the ranks
of white labor is the unan
swered question and one that
we will not attempt to anti
cipate here and now.
Whatever and whenever
the outcome, we would like
to suggest that it not be wait
ed for, and that each city,
town or community organize
now a kind of voluntary fair
employment practice com
mittee, composed of thinking
members of both races whoa
are willing to face courageous
ly and frankly the problem of
Negro employment, and that
they not only discuss the ques
tion but do something about
it.
Not only is such an organi
zation needed in every com
munity to aid the Negro in
finding employment as such
but to raise the economy. For
it is utterly impossible for a
jobless Negro to shoulder his
economic responsibility, and
he must in the end become a
liability rather than an asset.
The words of wisdom spoken
by the late Booker T. Wash
ington nearly a half-century
ago need to be re-emphasized,
“You can’t keep a man in the
ditch unless you stay in there
with him.”
STATE
SPENDING THE BOND ISSUE MONEY
Now that the $72 million
bond issue has beeen passed
it becomes the duty of every
citizen of the state to see to it
that the money is spent in the
areas where it is mostly need
ed. With only $50 -million to
be spent on schools there is
little hope that such a small
amoutit will result in bring
ing Negro schools within
speaking distance of equality
with the state’s schools for
whites. The unfair practice
of alloting to Negro schools
only the crumbs that fall from
the educational table in North
Carolina has been going on
for over three-quarters of a
century, and it is not possible
to undo such a wrong with
such a small amount of money
as $50 million.
The CAROLINA TIMES
feels that state educational
officials will only show good
intentions if they spend every
dime of the $50 million on
Negro schools and that to do
less will only give impetus to
more federal school suits. If
all the money is spent on Ne
gro schools, Negro leaders
might begin to have faith in
the efforts of state officials
to equalize educational facili
ties of white and Negro
schools of the state. It will
not, however, satisfy. The ulti
GENERAL—‘
mate goal is absolute equal
ity, and that can only come
through integration.
We think that after nearly
a century of being denied
equal educational opportuni
ties while at the same time
being forced to pay the same
taxes for the upkeep of super
ior schools for white citizens
that the only just and fair
procedure is to spend every
dime of the $50 millionr'on
Negro schools in the counties
like CasWell, where last year
the record showed that there
.were 21-one-teacher schools
for Negroes with as many as
seven classes being taught in
many of them. This in view of
the fact that in many areas
where these schools exist a
steam iieated, brick school
structure with ample class
rooms is maintained fo;:
whites.
As far back as 1945, the
legislature of t^ie state passed
a bill for the establishment of
a Negro training school for
feeble-minded children as a
counterpart to the Caswell
Training School, established
in 1919 for feeble-minded
white children . In spite of
the fact that the bill was pass
ed over seven years ago,
nothing has been done, by
succeeding legislatures to pro
vide funds for the erection of
the school.
In addition to the fact that
the state maintains no school
for feeble minded Negro chil
dren, it also maintains no hos
pital for Negro alcoholics as
it does for its white citizens
at Butner. Thus, not only in
the field of education has the
state been robbing its Negro
citizens for a long number of
years but also in the field of
care for feeble-minded Negro
children and that of al
coholics. The $22 million
ought to be spent entirely in
providing such care and in
making amends for the wrong
that has been committed over
so long a period.
The att.pmpt tn the
full responsibility by crowd
ing all of these needed facili
ties in the institution main
tained for Negroes at Golds
boro is unfair, unjust and
conducive to creating poorer
race relations in this state. It
is forcing Negroes to resort
to the court to solve problems
that ought to be solved over
the conference table and by
people wha are concerned
about each other’s welfare
without regard for race, creed
or color.
IHPUCAIIONS OF THREAT TO
MKT DR. FRANK HORNE
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Rumors around Washington
are currently to the efject that
Dr. Frank S. Horne, assistant to
the administrator oj the Hoiuin0
and Home Finance Agency, was
informally requested about
three weeks ago to tender his
resignation from his post to
make room for the appointment
of a Republican, Joseph Ray, to
the job. Both are Negroes. The
rumor of Dr. Horne’s threatened
otwter has caused unprecedented
comment among Negro leaders
and the NAACP. Following is
the first of two installments dis
cussing itnplications of Dr.
Horne's ouster by the TIMES
Washington correspondents. The
next installment will appear
next week.
During the past 15 years, the
housing agencies ol the Federal
Government have developed and
utilized a group of specialists in
public administration, housing
and interracial adjustments that
have become known collectively
as The Racial Relations Ser
vice.” Their jobs in the field
have been to work with cityolli-
cials and private builders, len
ders, real estate operators and
community groups to expand the
opportunities of Negroes and
other nonwhite families to at
tain decent private and public
housing. In Washington, their
job has been to influence the
policy and procedure of the
Federal housing agencies to the
end that Negroes would parti
cipate equitably and smoothly
in all types of private and public
housing as well as slum clear
ance and urban redevelopment
programs. Through the years,
this Service has become recog
nized as a distinctive contribu
tion to public administration and
improved racial relations thr
oughout the Nation through its
consistent efforts and achieve
ments toward equalizing the op-
portui^ity for decent housing
among all American citizens.
This service has been develop
ed, supervised and coordinated
by the incumbent in the position
of Assistant to the Administra
tor of the Housing and Home
Finance Agency, Dr. Frank S.
Horne. He came tq this position
from 10 years of educational
work in Georgia at the Fort Val
ley State College. He has attain
ed permanent Civil Service ca
reer status, with veteran’s pre
ference rights, and is ret^ognized
as one of the leading au&oritieai
in the field of racial relauons in
housing. Most of the field and
Washington personnel of the
Service are Civil Service em
ployees, selected on the basis of
proven experience and compe
tence in public administration
and intergroup adjustments,
without regard to their race,
creed or poHticai affiliation. Orr
August 25 of this year. Dr.
Home’s job—along with 29
others in housing—was removed
from Civil Service and placed
in the new Schedule “C” which
opens it up to appointment on
a political or any other basis
without regard to civil service
requirements for the job. Sena
tor Sherman Cooper of Ken
tucky has now annoimced tAat
he is sponsoring the replace
ment of Horne with a real estate
broker and builder of Louisville,
Kentucky, who has been an ac
tive Republican political lead
er in that State for many years.
This action represents the first
time that the Racial Relations
Service has been subjected to
political pressure by either par
ty in the 15 years of its exis
tence. Numerous national orga
nizations vitally concerned with
housing and intergroup relations
are protesting this proposed
change as being not in the high
est interest of public administra
tion, housing, racial relations or
of Negroes and the Nation at
large. Both Ray and Horne are
Negroes.
The basic issue involved is
not simply the preservation of
a certain individual in a cer
tain job. Rather the fundamen
tal effort is to preserve the in
tegrity of a non-partisan pro
fessional Governmental Service,
developed through a period of
15 years and conducted along
sharply defined lines of Govern'
mental policy and procedure.
The purpose is to have this Ser
vice recognized as professional,
tecimical and objective, com
parable to the professional ca
reer technicians (jf such agen
cies as the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, the Bureau of Stan
dards, and the Atomic Energy
Commission; the objective is to
avert the danger of its becom
ing the subject of patronage by
either political party and pre
vent the Disastrous effect of in
truding the “Spoils System” up
on a technical Federal Service.
There is no value here in dis
paraging others who may be tm-
der consideration for this top
job or any other position in the
racial relations operation in
housing. There are now a num
ber of individuals—^white and
Negro alike—with the type of
training an experience in public
administration, housing and in
ter-group relations who could
qualify for and carry forward
effectively top jobs in Federal
housing programs.
The basic concern is that this
Service goes forward, builds up
on 15 years of cumulated experi
ence so that the best interests
of the Government are assured
and Negro and other racial
and minority families are ser
ved as fully as ar^ families of
ither racial groups. The only
justification for all-out effo^
to avert the ouster ol the head of
this Service is to ensure continu
ous and consistent progress to
ward the goal that Negro and
other non-white families get the
same opportunity to bargain for
decent housing in the open mar
ket- as is available to any other
American family.
The situation wlilch has ■ de-"
veloped now, .in which one Ne
gro is being played off against
another, represents a prime fail
ure of white and Negro leader
ship—political and otherwise—to
plaee the public interest and
improvement of the bousing of
all races above the interests of
any individuals or political par
ties. Joseph Ray ol Louisville,
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GOSPEL HUSTLERS ON THE INCREASE
In the September 26 issue
of several weekly newspa
pers there appear^ a picture
of Fatherine Divine shaking
hands with Prophet Jones
while standing beside Father
Divine was his wife clad in a
silver mink coat. Neither of
these two so-called religious
leaders needs no introduction
to the people of America.
Whatever their claim on
possessing supernatural pow
ers will in time be nailed
down as the truth or follow
in the footsteps of other flim-
flammers and crooks.
We think, however, that
the public’s attention needs to
be called to the fact that great
religious leaders of the past
whose work had lived after
them have never been posses
sors of great material wealth.
In a class by Himself and the
most outstanding of them all
was Jesus Christ. Sjiid one
writer of Him, the only piece
of property He had on this
earth was His cloak, and we
would add that it was by no
means a silver-mink doak.
When He was finally put to
death by being hang^ be
tween two thieves they had
to bury Him in a borrowed
tomb. Imagine Him, His rela
tives or the type of people
who would become His friend
wearing a silver-mink coat.
More and more it is begin
ning to leak out about the
nefarious schemes of present
day gospel hustlers who fat
ten off the blood and sweat of
religious dupes and fanatics.
In spite of it all their tribe
and their followers appear to
be on the increase,-so much
so until we are beginning to
wonder if it isn’t possible to
stretch too far this thing call
ed religious freedom.
SATURDAY
CbcCa
OCTOBER 10, 1953 I
L. E.
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WASHINGTON AND
SMALL BUSINESS
A itep toward preiervation'of
.American free enterprise was
presidential signature of the
Smill Business Act This sets up
the Small Business Adminis
tration empowered to make loans
to independent business.
* * *
The measure,
■upported by[
Independent!
business le&d-l
en, wai pilot-1
ed throuf hi
Congaess b y
Senator Ed
ward J. Thye,{
Minn, chalr-l
man ol the Sen.
ate Small Bua-'
Iness Commit- C.W. Harder
tee, and Ee^. Wm. S. Hill, chair
man ot the Houae Small Bual-
neas Committee.
« • *
By Octobeif, the Small Business
Administration should be operat
ing, making loans to small bus
iness needing development funds
not available elsewhere. '
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U thia new scency, the iman
bnaineas loan fonotiona ot the ex
piring BFC, and the Small Da-
tenie Planta Corporation limo-
tion to help small plant* get •
fair share of the defense work
oontraota, have been oombined.
• a *
SBA, although authorized by
law to have a maximum ot fXlB.t
000,000 outstanding in business
loam at one time, is opening
shop with $98,000,000.
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While CongreM raaliaed need
tor assistance to small business,
H Is waiting to see succeaa of
SBA operation l>efore allocating
tbe entire legal limit of funds.
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nierefore, the success of SBA
will depend to a great extent on
how aetively sm^ businessmen
participate in the development
ot this new agency.
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lha need for » sooroe sf orsdU
fer small bns Iness wis well «»•
^ jtitlaal rtlatam at SnilinH
By C. WILSON HARDER
tablislied during Oongressional
hearings and study.
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Several facts were considered,
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Among them was the fact that
tmder tax laws, it is practlcaUy
imposAbie tor a business to lay
aside enough reserves for ex
pansion by tiie time honored
method of setting aside a part
of earnings. Uauaiiy, a small bus
iness gets to a point whereby
it remains static, must sell out
to a big company or perish.
• * *
While many private bankers
would like to make more loans
to independent business, they
are handicapped by federal and
local banking laws.
Adminlsirator W* S. Mitchell
announces he wU work toward
the eventual goal of small bus
iness loans being nnderwrltten
by private capital.
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There is precedent.
Under TBA home flnaaoing,
private capital is employed,
with goTeroment insurance. The
Federal Land Bank system,
ooce heavily finanoed by tba
government, lias become lad*-
pendent of gavemment flaanca,
and meets needs e( farmars t*
an extent whloh laws do not per
mit omventional banks to (•.
« • «
It is much too early to predlot
what direction the SBA will taks.
The Important point is &at gov
ernment has recognized that first
of all small business is vital to
the nation; seccQdly ttiat small
business has finance problems
requiring imder present condi
tions, . sj)ecial attention beycnd
legal nictations at private banks.
•
1hetesre,aa with se naav
plans fer rngnm sei up In Hm
frame work ol a demooraey, the
soocess or fallare ef SBA wHl
depid largely apon the extont
to n4iioh independeot basiniss
BMB work fer Us saeoaas.
“BUT A CIVIL MCHTS UW WILL
, HELP, MR. PRESIDENT
BUT wr BE MAKING
WOMPERFUL PBOCffESSS!
«
Spiritual Insight
“AGONIZING LONEUNESS”
BY REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
PASTOR, MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH
‘‘And they all forsook him and
fled "Mark 14:5«
Loneliness is omb of the most
unbearable of human experien
ces. It is agonizingly painful. No
wonder so many fall under its
crushing weight. Someone has
called loneliness the great sick-
mass of people swept past me.
I think about it the more truth
I see in it. We can even be lonely
in a great mass of people. I ex
perienced it one Saturday after
noon in New V^jrk asi a great
mass of people swept pass me.
God did not make us lor the
agony of loneliness. We are
made, in our inmost nature, lor
fellowship and communion. Thus
when we are cut off from vital
human communion there is an
aching .void in the human soul.
Our inmost nature cries out for
Communion with God and man.
The agony of loneliness be
speaks the deepest hungers and
needs of men.' Every human be
ing needs to worship. We need
the soul nourishment that comes
from stealing away once a week
to join in prayer, singing, medi
tation and communion. We need
to flee from the AGONY OF
LONELINESS! We need to
stand on Holy ground! We need
to see life from the Mount of
Transfiguration. We need to see
life in the light of the Cross with
its outreach of redeeming love.
There is nothing but the agony
of loneliness if you see life only
from the human leve^ You need
a reverent pause in the heart
warming glow of the Holy
Spirit. Jesus faced physical lone
liness when “THEY FORSOOK
HIM AND FLED._“But Jesus
was ready for it. He had com
muned in the upper room and
had prayed in the garden. Jesus
was prepared through human
fellowship and Divine commun
ion. He was ready when he took
the path of God’s willl
~Left in our strength we are
crushed under the weight of
our loneliness. There is power
for the lonely. There is high and
Holy Communion for the lonely.
Remember that—“The arm of
flesh will fail you.._You dare
not trust your own-„.“You can
not walk this way alone. You
need the support of a higher
power, pind God! Find power
through human and Divine com
munion. Steal away once a week
to hear of God’s love. Go some
place and sing and pray with
the people of God _.“He leadeth
me beside still waters„_ He re-
storeth my soul ” Accept the
Savior’s invitation once a week..
“Come ye that labor and are
heavy laden—and I will give
you rest-..,.
Overweening selfishness is
the root of the AGONY OF
LONELINESS. Get away from
self. Lose yourself in some ser
vice of love. Forget self and you
life. Jesus could go on when they
all forsook him because he had
surrendered to the will of God!
Lose your life and you will find
It!
by Alfred Andenen
Within and Among
Dear fellow ’Seekers Taking
the position that good living
consists in good celations with
one’s environment we have ar
gued for the position that good
nutrition has ethical implica
tions, specifically toward tbe
lower forms of life affected by
man’s efforts to feed his body
before we leave this area of dis
cussion we have yet to deal with
man’s treatment of those “low
er” forms of life called animals.
What treatment of animal^ does
the good life require of us?
The Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to animals has much to
say about the treatment of d^gs
and cats and other household
pets. But hardly a vo,ice is raised
in consideration-of the treatment
of “farm animals’’, those long
suffering creatures which sup
ply such a large portion of the
average American diet. Where
our stoniachs are concerned we
turn the other way at slaughter
and mistreatment. What we are
concerned with here, then, is
the question as to what, if any,
good relationship can be had
with cows, chickens, pigs, etc.
Off hand, it might seem a
simple matter to have a coopera
tive relation with chickens, for
instance, where we give them
food and shelter in exchange for
their eggs. Their eggs, yes, but
what of their carcasses? Can we
enjoy a meal in the meditative
spirit realizing that this chicken
meat whiA we eat with such
relish is the product of a process
of raising chickens exclusively
for butchering purposes? A
chicken has a normal life expec
tancy of several years, with
normal activity amounting to
free exploration of the woods
and the field for certain seeds,
twigs, insects, etc. Their wings
are hardly strong enough to al
low them much pleasure in fly
ing (though some nevertheless),
but their legs are capable of
much running and exploration;
and they seem to be bom to pe(^k
at an infinite variety of interes
ting objects in ’ the natural
world. Are these natural inclina
tions ,and pleasures tO be brush
ed aside without consideration
what ever? Is man’s glutenous
appetite for “fried chicken” to
be the only consideration, not
to forget of course the purely
financial benefits In chicken
raising and-slaughtering? Does
it seem right to raise chickens
for 10 weeks only, under artifi
cial environment at 'that, when
their life expectancy under na
tural conditions is several years?
It Has been argued that this
reasoning iuis no end, for It
makes us as reluctant to kill a
fly, a malaria-carrying mosqui
to, or a poisonous snake as our
theoretical “chicken”. If we
were to raise flies, mosquitoes,
and snakes merely for the
slaughtering the argument
would make some sense. But It
is one thing to kill in order to
protect “higher life”, seeing no
other alternative; it is another
to deliberately breed life and
then abort its full development
merely on the excuse that It’s
carcass lends variety to the A-
merican diet and income to a
branch’ of American business,
this when there are abundant
other foods which have served
man quite well. Historically
man’s most basic food is fruit
and nuts; the robust bear still
lives largely on these. With ^
man’s ingenuity, siurely ways
can be developed to~ fill hia
tummy by other means than
raising animals for slaughter. It
may be argued that even raising
cows essentially for milk and
chickens essentially for eggs
leaves the problem of what to
do with the male individuals
who are even more expendable*
in these days of artificial in
semination. This is a problem,
the solution of which will not
be discussed here beyond point
ing out the important differenae
between slaughtering inciden
tally to the main interest in
giving the animals a normal
life on a cooperative basis—.be
tween this and raising animals
for slaughtering exclusively.
This whole area of right treat
ment of farm animals in a sym
pathetic and cooperative spirit
is one which needs to be worked
out in practice, as do all other
areas of “the good life,,. But
then we all preach much better
than we practice!
School Sponsors
Fair Exhibits
GARLAND
The Garland Agriculture De
partment under the direction of
E. W. Gray, teacher of Agricul
ture,- entered two educational
exhibits at the Sampson County
fair held during the week of
Sept. 21 to the 27. One exhibit
was a blue ribbon winner'of
$60.00 and titled ADULT FAR
MERS LEARN MORE TO EARN
MORE. The other received a
third prize of $40.00 with its
theme “’THE HIGHWAY TO
SUCCESS WITH PASTURES.”
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