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THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY. OCT. 17. 1953
GENERAL
THE BUIiDEN OF SEGREGATION
The United States Court of
Appeals for the Fourth Cir
cuit has been asked to make a
clear-cut ruling on the ques
tion of whether a bus comp
any’s right to set up a reg
ulation requiring Negro and
white passengers to be segre
gated is a burden on inter
state conunerce. From all
indications the company,
known as the Carolina Coach
Company, hopes to keep in
tact its policy of maintaining
the humiliating practice of
forcing Negroes to the rear of
its veWcles, solely on account
of their color.
Although the federal courts
have ruled that passengers
traveling from a non-segrega
ting state to a segregating
state cannot be segregated in
interstate travel, they have
never been called upon to
pass on the matter of segre
gating passengers in inter
state travel within segrega
ting states. We think, how
ever, that the court will rule
that the practice is illegal and
bus companies opiating in
the South will find them
selves hard put to discrimin
ate against Negroes who: are
intrastate passengers and not*
discrimiate against those who
are interstate passengers.
If and when the court
rules against the practice and
declares it a burden on inter
state commerce, southerners
will again be thrown face to
face with the stupidity of the
whole pattern of segregation.
The South is becoming weary
of its own pet child, and there
are indications all around that
it is getting tired of carrying
it.
Lest we forget, it is the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
that is keeping the question of
the rights of minorities to
first-class citizenship before
the courts. If you haven’t paid
your dues, do so now and help
keep up the fight.
DURHAM-
AND THE HEAVENS DID NOT FALL
. I DISTRUST
GREAT MEN...”
“Democracy starts from the
assumption that the individual
is important, and that all types
are needed to make a civili
zation. It doesn’t divide its
cititens into bosses and the
bossed, as an efficiency-reKime
tends to do. The people I ad
mire most are sensitive and
want to create something or
discover something, and don’t
see life in terms of power, and
such people get more of a
chance under a democracy
than elsewliere.
“Democracy has another
merit—it alhiws criticism, and
if there isn’t public criticism
there are bound to be hushed-
up scandals.”
—E. M. FORSTER
The CAROLINA TIMES
takes off its hat to the com
mittee on arrangements for
splendid job it did in welcom
ing the Korean War veterans
back home. The affair was
one of the finest and most
democratic ever staged here
and showed conclusively
what can be done in Durham
when persons of courage and
the true American spirit are
placed in charge of such pro
grams. It probably will be
disappointing to the reaction
ary segment of DurhaVn’s citi
zens that nothing happened
during the entire program
that was not in keeping with
o^r form of government
which guarantees equality to
all citizens of our great coun
try.
The manner in which the
welcome extended to the
Korean War veterans was
staged is the most telling blow
dealt communism here in
many a day. It will probably
be disappointing to the Com
munists, as well as advocates
of segregation, who are the
Communists’ greatest aids,
that the welcome to the vet
erans was staged without any
evidence of discrimination
and the heavens did not fall.
Communism fattens on racial
discord, and any movement
that tends to promote har
mony between persons of dif
ferent races is a distinct blow
to it.
In the past Durham has
missed many fine opportuni
ties to promote racial har
mony and contribute to the
perpetuation of Democracy.
It is our sincere hope that the
welcome extended the Korean
War veterans is the beginning
of a series of other commun
ity projects of an interracial
nature that will contribute to
the perpetuation of true
Americanism.
GENERAl
TRYING TO GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
It is hard for those posses
sing rational minds to under
stand just how any human
being could sink so low as to
commit a crime as revolting
as that of the kidnaping and
murder of Bobby Greenlease.
That a man and a woman
could form a partnership for
the purpose of carrying out
such a vile act is even more as
tonishing. That in the course
of the plotting and planning
of this most heinous crime it
never dawned upon these two
miserable pe«ons that they
could not get away with it
causes us to wonder if some
where in the course of their
rearing their parents and so
ciety failed to impress upon
their minds the one simple
truth that you can’t get some
thing for nothing.
Carl Austin Hall, the drug
addict, and Mrs. Bonnie
Brown Heady, the alcoholic,
have probably come to the
end of their row and will no
DURHAM-
doubt be sent to their de&th
at the hands of the law. It is
in that hour that both of them
will probably make their
greatest contribution to so
ciety, in that they will be held
up as a glaring example of
what happens to people when
they shut God out of their
lives and decide that they can
get something for nothing.
Lest we forget, there are
my^ny iic hiitvtQMc
though we have not sunk so
low in the depths of human
existence as Carl Austin Hall
and Bonnie Brown Heady, be
lieve that it is possible in this
world to get something for
nothing. If this were not true,
the race tracks, the numbers
racket, the bootleggers and
numerous other rackets
would not and could not exist.
For it is upon this segment of
society, the segment that be
lieves you can get something
for nothing that racketeers
flourish.
The kidi^ing and murder
of Bobby Greenlease should
make us all realize more em
phatically that every individ
ual of sound mind owes a debt
to society to help stamp out
such crimes by sup|)orting the
program of the church and
upholding the law. For when
Christian people fail in their
duty toward the church, when
they fail to stand by the
rniirtg in thpir pffnrtg to riin
down and expose crime and
criminals of all sorts, they are
making such crimes as that
committed by Carl Austin
Hall and Bonnie Brown
Heady possible.
If there is any good to come
out of this most revolting
crime, it most certainly wiU
be the teaching of the lesson
that you can’t get something
for nothings a lesson that
many of us who recoil in ter
ror ^t the Greenlease kid
naping and murder, have not
yet fully learned.
SUPPORT THE UNITED FUND DRIVE
The CAROLINA TIMES
calls the attention of its read
ers to the fact this week that
the United Fund drive is now
in full swing and that it is the
duty of every citizen to put
his shoulder to the wheel and
help makeAhe drive a success.
The overall goal of $395,246.-
65 is not in excess of the total
amount raised in years past
when instead of one campaign
Durham was the scene of sev
eral.
The United Fund is the at
tempt of public spirited citi
zens of the city to end the
year round campaigning that
has been going on in Durham.
Certainly one drive per year
is more to be desired than the
several that have been put on
each year here, and it is the
hope of this newspaper that
every citizen will do his level
best to make the United
Fund drive a success.
SATURDAY
C. M. ROSS, Managing Editor
OCT. 17, 1953
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Fayetteville Gl Heads Home After Service In Korea
WITH THE 1ST CALVARY
DIV. IN JAPAN—Cpl. JOSEPH
L. RITCH, 22. ion of Mr. -and
Mn. WUUe L. Bitch, 805 Nor-
m*l ave., FaxettevlUe, N. C.,
Is enroute to the U. S. after «er-
ving in Japan wHh the 1st Cav
alry Divijloa.
I In the Far East since World
I War II, the 1st Cavalry was rush
ed to Korea duritlK the early
^ fighting and fought for 17 mon-
I thg before returning to Japan in.
late 1991 for security force
duty.
A veteran of Korea duty
I Riteh hoMs the UN and Ko:
force
duty,!
oreanmt
Service ’ Ribbons,' Di^inguished
Unit Emblem, Combat Infantry-
njan Badge and the Army of
Occupation Medal for duty in
Japan. In the Army since Oct.,
1950, he served as a cook in the
8th Regiment's Company H. '
THE DEEP SOUTH SPEAKS
GIVE US BRIGHTER UGHTS
BY ROBERP DURR
(For Calvin ^^ew• Service)
The wife of the president of homes and the demand for light-
a great power and light system
in the very deep South hired a
Negro carpenter-mlnister to do
some repair work on some buil
dings she owns.
She asked the carpenter-min-
Ister one day his interpretation
of that passage In the Christian
Bible which in substance reads:
“Go into the highways and by
ways and compel them to come
in.”
By way of reply our carpen-
ter-minister told a story. He
stated that long ago down in the
rurals where he was bom an^
reared to manhood, they used
small tin kerosene oil lamps for
lighting at night and that the
merchant who retailed the lamps
did very good business. This was
because he had a monopoly on
the kerosene lamp market in
that neck of the woods. But one
day some fellow came along and
sold some member of the com
munity on installing an electric
lighting system for his home.
The carpenter-mlnister says
the electric lights were so much
brighter and gave so much bet
ter service that soon almost
everybody in the community
wanted electric lights in their
ing equipment shifted from the
kerosene tin lamps to the bright
er electric lights without any
pressure being exerted against
the farmer—just another way of
saying that old man Emerson
had something when he admon
ished: “If you can write a better
book, preach a better sermon
even though you build your
house in the woods, the world
will make a beaten path to your
door.”
The world today cries for bet
ter and brighter lights in the
field of human and race rela
tions; in democratic and religi
ous practice and in the struggles
of individuals to bright-out the
evils which flow from racialism,
nationalism and communism.
Each of us has a responsibility
we can not delegate in this mat
ter.
If we lift high brighter lights
of pure God-guided democratic
living in our individual and col
lective practices, we ■irill find
ourselves accelerating a preva
lence of a unified and peaceful
world society.
Give people brighter lights
and they will find their way out
of the night that covers us.
Durham Girl Scout Council Will
Be Represented At Confab In 0.
DURHAM
The Durham Girl Scout Coun
cil will be represented by three
delegates at the organization’s
32nd National Convention to be
held in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct.
18-21. According to the an
nouncement, made today at
Scout headquarters, the dele
gates will be Mrs. Roger Ander
son, Leader Representative to
the Council, Dr. Rose Butler
Brown, Julia Warren Represen
tative to the Council, and Miss
Virginia Suiter, Executive Di
rector.
The locally selected delegates
automatically become members
of the Girl Scout National Coun
cil and are empowered to vote
on national issues at the con
vention, elect national Girl
Scout officers, pass on the or-
ganization’js national budget, and
consider nation-wide Girl Scout
activities for the next Two years.
The convention, held biennially,
will bring together nearly,8,000
people from all states, U.S.A.
territories and possessions. A-
mong the people prominent in
worldwide Girl Scouting who
will take part in the convention
program will be the Lady Ba-
den-Powell, World Chief Guide,
and widow of the founder of th»
Scouting movement for both
boys and girls, Lord Baden-Po-
well of Gilwell.
Dr. Browne will be a member
of a panel discussion entitled
“Community Support for Scout
ing.” The six members of the
panel come from all sections of
the country. Mrs. Browne is re
presenting the Sixth Region,
made up of North Carolina,
South Carolina, tJeorgia, and
Florida. She has been active in
Scouting for 21 years, the last S
in Durham, and has been a lea
der in the erection of Camp Dai
sy E. Scarborough, the Julia
Warren Girl Scout camp now
being built on Fayetteville Road
Plans are now being made for
the entire group attending the
Convention to travel northward
together by plane, leaving home
October 18, 1953. Miss Suiter
will remain in Cincinnati
through October 27 for a train
ing course.
Hillside High
PTA Group Sees
One Act Play
DURHAM
Winter Simset,” a one act
play, was presented before an
audience of Parents and Teach
ers at the Hillside high school
auditorium last Monday eve
ning, Oct. 5.
The cast included Lizzie
Crews as Mrs. ^drews, Nathan
White as Bill, Dorothy Allen as
Bill’s wife and Reginald Dalton
as Dr. Michaelson, Mrs. An
drew’s physician.
The players were seen pre
viously in a performance before
the North Carolina Mutusil Life'
Insurance company’s home of
fice forum last month. It is re
ported that they were heartily
applauded.
WASHINGTON AND
"SMALL BUSINESS”
By C. WILSON HARDER
The Federal Trade Commis
sion, set up to help enforce laws,
appears to have entered into
.their owh Big Switch.
* • *
FTC is busy as beavers bat
soUvlUes seem larsely confined
to scanning advertiiement*, ar
bitrarily miinc wlist can and
cannot be saidi
alMtnt any prod-
nct. In tlie
meantime,
main function
ieft-lisnd-]
ed treatment.
* • *
A perfect!
case in point isl
the FTC
nouncement of!
bearings on tel- C.W. Harder
evisibn receiver industry.
• • •
FTO Is iookinc aakauce at io-
dostry metliod of ciasstfying pic-
tnre tnbe site, ie, a 21 inch tube
is Z1 inclie* on the diaKonsi, in
stead of eitliar 21 Indies wide, or
Itifh, a practice started in early
days when tnl>es were ronnd or
oval. Today, with rectangular
tnbes, practice is antiquated but
a matter wUch indnstry will m-
doiditedly change without gov-
ermnent meddling.
• * •
However, while FTC prefers to
decide between merits of Twee-
dledeedee and Tweedledeedum,
it hai so far ignored the plague
o the appliance business.
* • *
That evil is wide spread be
tween the disoonat oS the retail
price given the smaller dealer,
and big. or molti-ontiet dealers.
• * •
Because retail prices are the
same consumer is not aware of
discount set-up.
* * *
e Vsiially ooninmer is better pro
tected baying appliances from
small dealer because of person
alised service.
• « •
A multi-store dealer often
makes as much as 20% more on
a given item. On i )300 sale that
XillwIlM W l»i«wiiil«iit BUM
is an extra profit of $80.
* « •
Obviously the extra |60 does
not come about because the man
ufacturer sells at a loss.
* * .*
Therefore, it appears public
pays excessive prices for appli
ances to provide bonuses to a
favored few huge outlets.
* * *
Manufacturors not liking sys
tem are powerless to do any
thing else. Big outlets will not
handle their products without
preferential discount.
• * *
' There are other practices FTC
could well investigate.
* • •
One is cooperative advertis
ing. Although manufacturers
usually pay half the cost of a
dealers’ aidvertising on their
products there are reported in
stances of Big outlets getting
entire amount paid by manufac
turer, which is lost another way
of giving extra discounts to a
favored retail outlet.
• * •
It appears FTC could 4nd
many facts to jUstUy a full scale
hearing on selling pracUces in
the appliance business.
* * *
Of course, FTC would step on
some mighty powerful toes.
* * *
And that may be reason why
'I'TC prefers to hunt for needles
in a haystack.
After all, when FTC teUs Ut-
tl«L Joe, |he com plaster man,
to quit saying his product will
stop com diaoomfort overnight
and that Instead he must say
something in effect his oom pla»-
ters are designed to relieve dls-
, comfort, and some folks have re
ported some benefit, there is lit
tle that little Joe can do, beoanse
he can’t buck buNUoratle
power.
^ •
The Russians have a word for
this type of one-sided procedure.
• * •
Tlie word Is SevietlBa.
The Nightmare Of Oppression Is
Coining To It End"
I
_ P-BROWN'VettO
■ or the
Spiritual Insight
' “Standing By In Time Of Trouble”
BY REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
PASTOR, MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH
“Job’s friends heard of all this
evil that had come upon him.
They came to comfort...none
spake a word..." Job 2:11-13
It is a consolation to have
someone stand by in time of
•trouble. Job’s friends came to
console him when he stood in
the darkest depths. There he is
in the depths, stripped of all
things that men hold most dear—
wealth, goods and his family.
The depths gives the true mea
sure of a man’s soul. Life’s real
tests come in the fire. This man,
as is true of us many times, had
descended from the heights to
the darkest depths. Anybody
can stand on the heights. Can
you stand when the painful re
verses come? Job’s friends came
to stand by in the time of
^rouble This man, as is true of
us many times, had descended
from the heights to the darkest
depths. Anybody can stand on
the heights. Can you stand when
the painful reverses come? Job’s
friends came to stand by in the
lime of trouble. We need friends
in time of trouble.
Job’s friends came and sat in
silence and mingled their tears
with his tears.
Wars in the past ten years
have stripped many millions and
left them in painful agony. They
have been uprooted arid stripped
of everything. These people have
re-enacted the great drama of
suffering that Job knew. But
unlike Job many had no friends
to stand by to comfort them.
We all utter agonizing cries In
our heart-rending and troubled
experiences. In troubled times
we need a nourishing friendship.
In time of trouble we see the
real value of friendship. The
value of friendship is seen when
we stand in the painful depths of
Tonellness. 'ln ?uclr times
spirit is strained to the blessing
to have friends come and stand
by in times of distress, misfor
tune and grief. In such times
many are tempted to curse God.
Many cry out of the depths:
WHY DID IT HAVE TO HAP
PEN TO ME? Job’s friends did
not speak. We don’t need to
speak—our interest and pre
sence speak for us in time of
trouble and grief.
A burden bearer needs a bur
den sharer. True friendship
shares ^ burden. Yes, a true
friend is a burden sharer! There
is too much leechy friendship.
The leech h6ngs on for what he
can get out of you! He takes all
and gives nothing. A friend stan
ding by makes the burden light
er. Job must have found relief
and comfort when he saw his
friends standing silently by in
sympathy and understanding.
A true friend mingles his tears
come a tie that binds. They knit
heart to heart. In times of
trouble we need an understand
ing friend.
by Alfred Andersen
Within and Among
Dear fellow seekers we have
tried to show the difference be
tween killing animals incidental
ly to raising them for the pur
pose of some cooperative ar
rangement, as against raising
them for slaughter. If we are
to harmonize our lives with the
Ways of nature and with the
whole living world, it seems nec-
cessafy to soul-search regardins
our glutinous demands for amP'
mal carcasses regardless of the
ccircumstances of their killing.
To my knowledge there Is no
nutritional evidence .to indicate
that meat is a requirement in th6
human diet. As a matter of fact
there is evidence that the pro
tein for which meat is valuable
is of higher quality in the dairy
products and particularly in
eggs. I have known personally
a number of people who refrain
ed from eating meat. By appear
ance and vitality I would judge
them among the healthiest of
people. To be sure* they have
a varied diet of dairy products,
vegetables, eggs, fruits and nuts.
When one determines not to eat
meat it is amaeing what a va
riety of foods and preparations
are still available.
This completes our treatment
of the practices in meeting basic
food needs indicated by the
Good Life. We have tried to
show that a concern for the
whole Life Family is not only
practical but generally desir
able from a physical health
standpoint.
However, granting this. It is
possible to be so concerned
about one’s relations with “low
er form#- of life” that relations
with one’s fellow humans is left
out of consideration. It is all
I very well to be kind to animals
and to have a reverence for the
soil and its products. But when
this is at the price of being over-
critical and unfriendly toward
Jmc’s peers, overall value per
spective has been lost. A caval
ry soldier may be extremely
kind to his horse yet fight his
fellow men Ikie a bloodthirsty
savage. Certainly we do not ad
vocate this kind of unbalance.
Essentially we do advocate
slowing down our lives, simpli
fying our needs and limiting
our associations to those which
can be on that quality which we
know to be conducive to har
mony among all of life’s forms.
Therefore a person who is
“kind to animals, etc." while
anti-social \oward fellow men
needs to simplify and limit his
associations among humans to
those which can be of the same
quality as his relations with the
lower forms of life. This requires
considerable self-discipline and
nobility of purpose. It means
mastering the essentials of
friendship and “brotherly love”.
The most elementary form of
all the complyIties qf human
association is that of friendship
between two persons. Emerson’s
Essay on Friendship relation
ship. Surely it is elemental to
worthwhile living. Which one of
us could consider his life worth
while without at least one close
friend with whom one felt free
and relaxed, with whom one
shares deep longings, question
ings, joys, sadnesses, and just
plain interests in dally living?
Yet important as we can all
agree this basic relationship to
be, it is singularly difficult to
express In words its sacred char
acter. As with the related rela
tionship called “love” words in
deed fail us. In either case the
participants realize that here is
something really important,
something which not only Jus
tifies life but which suggests it
self as the very meaning and end
of life. A true friend or loved
one is the most precious of life’s
possessions. Through such a rela
tionship all the virtues of the
human soul seem pushed to the
fore and one’s vision of one’s
best self looms bright and clear.
In fact, it is in this elemental
relationship of friendship that
the essential nature of the Good
Life is manifest. Take this ap
proach to true friend and some
how apply it In due measure to
all of4ife and we are close to
the heart of what we have been
trying to picture here. Next
week we shall try to show how
this is so.
Church Reports
Over $2,000 In
One Day Effort
The Pine Grove Baptist
Church, near Creedmoor, cele
brated its Annual Homeconiing
October 11 in the .new brick
edifice. The servic^was well
attended by menAers and
friends, and was featured by a
sermon from the pastor, the
Reverend G. W. Thomas. The
music was furnished by the
Zoar Baptist Male Chorus.
The afternoon session .was
highlighted by a sermon bom
the Reverend T. E. Parker, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
Oxford, music was rendered by
his junior choir. After listening
to an excellent sermon, and
beautiful music, the finance
committee reported f2,072 rais
ed during the day.