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GENERAL-
ONE WAV SIREI BROTHERHOOD
Last Sunday many of the
Negro Churches of Durham
were hosts to representatives
of the city’s white churches in
keeping with “Brotherhood
Wee k,” being celebrated
throughout the nation. From
several comers there have
some to the Carolina Times
criticisms of various sorts
against Nepo churches ex
tending invitations to mem
bers of white churches, espe
cially to their ministers to
preach in Negro pupils when
it is. a known fact that a re
ciprocal invitation will not be
forthcoming. Several stated
that they are sick and tired
of this one way street bro
therhood.
With these criticisms the
Carolina Times cannot quite
agree. “For if you love them
which love you that reward
have ye? do not even the
publicans the same? And if
ye salute your brethern only,
what do ye more than oth
ers? do not even the publicans
CHARLOTTE
There come times in the
course of histoiy whe^ God
needs a witness tor right, and
blessed and honored is he who
is called upon to serve ih that
capacity. Who knows but that
the 40,000 Negro pipits in
America today have been call
ed from among them and set
apart to become a witness, a
bulwark, a citadel for true
brotherhood in this dark hour
of the world’s existence when
without it mankind may be
entirely destroyed?
What greater role in his
tory can a race of people play
than to point the way to real
brotherhood? We rather think
that every Negro church in
America should reannounce
to the world that their doors
stand open to men of all
creeds, colors and races to
come in and partake of the
water of life freely.
This newspaper that has
been the object of revenge.
even from those of its own
group, will refuse again and
again to seek revenge. In so
doing, we hope in our feeble
way to point the way to those
of our own group and others
to that higber plane of life
where the human dignity of
all men is respected.
Does not the essence of
greatness exist in a man, or
people who is possessed with
the capacity to absorb “one
way street” brotherhood and
extend universal brotherhood
instead? Is it not a challenge
that we cannot afford to re
fuse to meet? In the words of-
Winston Churchill, this may
be the beginning our our
“shining hour.”
For whatever capacity the
white church has or lacks, we
do not believe that it can for
ever withstand the spiritual
suffering that comes from the
humility of those who have
the courage when smitten on
one cheek to turn the other.
BREEDING RESPEa FOR OUR COURTS
You read in last week’s is
sue of the Carolina Times the
account of a Negro who was
arrested, charg^ and tried
for raping a white woman in
Charlotte. You also read that
after the white woman had
identified him three times
that he was acquitted ^ an
all-white jury that evicfently
did not believe the woman’s
testimony but instead that of
witnesses for the Negro, all of
whom testified that he was
nowhere near the scene of the
crime when it is reported to
have occurred.
No Negro living in the
South can read of such in
cidents without trembling
when he thinks of the many
members of his race who have
been executed and even
lynched on testimony much
flimsier than that of the
white woman in Charlotte. If
the Negro had been charged
little or no attention to a Ne
gro’s word when it is stacked
against that of even the worst
type of white woman.
The Charlotte case is in
deed encouraging for those of
us in these parts who want
southern courts to be respect
ed. It shows definitely that
the trend in some parts of
North Carolina is at least in
the right direction, and that
the day is dawning when
equal justice for all may be
obtained in southern courts
on the basis of the evidence
with raping a white woman
in South Carolina, Georgia,
Eastern North Carolina, Miss
issippi or many of the other
southern states we doubt that
he would have ever been
brought to trial before being
lynched. Generally speaking,
the courts of the South pay
rather than the color of tone’s
skin. The officials of the
Mecklenburg County Super
ior Court should be commend
ed for the manner in which
the case was conducted, as
well as the lawyers who de
fended the Negro.
There is nothing that
breeds respect for our courts
more than the impartial .trial
of a defenseless defendant.
Likewise there is nothing
that breeds more disrespect
for our courts than an unfair
tpal of even the most wretch
ed criminal. The white wo
man involved no doubt was
honest in her testimony and
identification of the man, but
like all of us humans, at times,
she is subject to mistakes.
This is why it is always neces
sary to hear both sides of a
story before passing judge
ment on who is right.
GENERAL-
BRINGING THE ALLEY TO COLLEGE
This is one of those editor
ials that is hard to write. It
is hard to write because to
some extent it invades the
privacy of the home of an
individual whose abuse of the
right to such privacy has be
come a little more than de
cent people in this city are
willing to continue to stom
ach. in writing this editorial
we have taken into considera
tion the possibility of being
called old-fashioned and what
not. That we are willing to
endure.
In some people’s book a
man may have the right to
live in his home like a com
mon brute, 'and in so doing
he may even have the right
to beat his wife and maim her
for life or for a shorter pe
riod. According to modern
day society, that is strictly
his own business so long as
those of his own family do
not complain, take legal ac
tion to stop him or force him
to mend his ways.
Granted that such a person
may have the right to live his
own arid operate ^n educa-
of his own home as he sees
fit. We cannot, however,
grant him the right to do so
as long as his conduct in pri
vacy forces those of his hom^
to seek refuge, relief, protec
tion or trtatment in public
institutions where in the very
nature of the case his con
duct must of necessity become
We think that the citizens
and taxpayers of a state, who
own and ‘operate an educa
tional .institution for the
training, molding and shap
ing of its future citizens, have
a God-given right to demand
that the ii\structors in such
an institution represent the
highest and noblest type of
citizenship it is possible to
secure. When those in charge
of the hiring and firing of
such instructors do not have
the courage to rid such an in
stitution of a person or per
sons whose conduct is not
conducive to the higher call
ing in mankind, it beCbmes
the bounden duty of all re
spectable people to demand
their dismissal.
In taking such a stand, this
newspaper has one and only
one thing in mind, and that is
protection of the youths of
the race who ought not to be
led into believing that society
puts no penalty on a man
who conducts himself below
the level of a common brute
or like an alley rat and no
premium on one who con
ducts himself with dencency.
Too long, this newspaper has
winked at the lurid conduct
of some people in high places
who have been invested with
positions of great trust, with
the hope that those in author
ity would eventually be
shocked into the realization
that certain conditions are be
coming putrid sores on so
ciety.
When a college professor
goes to the alley, such in our
modern version of society
may be winked at, but when
a college professor brings the
alley to college it is time for
respectable persons to stand
up and be counted as being
opposed to such conduct.
CLUB MEMBERS FORUM
By MARCVS H.BOVLWARE
DEBATE ON MOTION
LOCAL-
PROTECTION FOR NEGRO MERCHANTS
The Durham Business and
Professional Chain would do
the Negro merchants of the
city a great favor if it would
adopt a policy of refusing to
allow any of its members to
make contributions of give
aid to solicitors without the
Chain’s approval. The same
policy is followed by the Mer
chants Association and pre
vents to a great extent white
merchants of the city from
being continuously hounded
for donations day in and day
out by persons claiming to
represent churches and other
worthwhile organizations.
A majority of the Negro
merchants of the city are con
tributors to the United Fund
and had hoped that by so do
ing they would be relieved of
continuous stream of solicitors
On the contrary they report
to the Carolina Times that the
tribe is increasing "and that
they are being hounded for
donations, the purchase of
tickets to this benefit play,
that entertainment, this pro
gram, that supper and what
not. In fact the custom is be
coming a downright nuisance.
The Chain could adopt a
policy whereby all worthy
persons or organizations de
siring to solicit funds, dona
tions or sell tickets to Negro
merchants in Durham would
be required to fill out an ap
plication in which they would
be called upon to answer
questions satisfactorily befpre
being §iven the Chain’s ap
proval in the form of a letter.
Persons not having such let
ter would be dehied donations
or help from all Chain mem
bers.
The Carolina Times be-
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SATVRDAY
FEB. 20, 1954
L. E. ADSnN, PablMi*r
CLATKAN M. BOSS, MUUr M. 1. JOHNSON, BmIbmi Muwfw
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PUBUSnM. iBooiparatatf *t H« S. PMtlcrew K.
Bntarad aa i»eon4 ctaai matter at ttaa Post Ottlo*
at Durham, North aodar 4ha Act ot MaMk
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Na fuarantaa ot pubUoatton of unaoUdtad mato-
rtal. L«ttna ta the adllor for pubuaattom muat ba
-*r — aad aaaanad ta SOO wmda.
aubeerlptlen Bata*: 10a par aopr; wnatha,
•3.00; Ona Taar, ft.OO (roralgii CotmMaa, f4.00
par yaar.)
Any motion that is debatable
is open for discussion as icon as
the presiding officer has stated
it to the assembly, and discus
sion is in order until the vote is
taken on the motion. To prevent
confusion only one person is al
lowed to debate at one time.
This person is said “to have the
floor.”-
Rules regarding debate in
clude:
1. All remarks must be ad
dressed to the presiding of
ficer.
2. AU remarks must be rele
vant to the motion before
the house. . ,
3. Discussion of personalities
and the use of names is im
proper.
4. Every member must be po
lite and cpurteous.
5. The assembly should give
respectful attention to the
chairman and the mem-
Tser speaking.
6. The proposer of a motion
cannot talk against the mo
tion he has presented, for
his disapproval by asking
permission to withdraw it.
7. Unless stated otherwise in
the rules, parliamentary
law sets the debate period
at ten minutes.
8. Common parliamentary
procedure allows a member
to speak only once upon a
motion until each member
has been given an opportu
nity to say something on
the motion.
READERS
For my parliamentary law
chart of motions, send 25 cents
to defray the cost of printing
and handling. Address your
questions to Marcus H. Boul-
ware, 1611 Fayetteville Street,
Durham, N. C.
STRAIGHT AHEAD
By OLIVE A. ADAMS
NEW YORK
This is Negro History Week,
and before the time is out, there
will have been many a speech
made about how far we have
come and what we have accom
plished in less than 100 years.
School children will be proudly
recoimting our successes in
many fields of endeavor. Many
a sermon will be preached, many
an editorial written, and fitting
tributes will be paid to the stal
warts who recognized no bar
riers even in slavery, but helped
to break their own chains and
carved out a life for us to fol
low. j
We have every reason to be
proud of the history of the Ne
gro in America; but history al
ways points a way for the fu
ture, and bids us do as well as
our predecessors. In this regard,
perhaps some of those hardy
souls who have gone before us
would not be too proud of many
of us who, though unshackled
physically, still handcuff our
selves by keeping our minds too
lieves such a policy is needed
in Durham, and urges the
Durham Business and Pro
fessional Chain to adopt it im
mediately for the protection
of Negro merchants, both
members and non-members.
For He is not a God of the dead, i
but lir tlWFUvIhgrtor smtre uiild ■
Him^CSt. Luke 20. 38.) |
God is the very air we breathe, '
the food we eat; the birds that sing, i
the flowers that bloom, the sun, the I
moon and the stars. AU that there ,
ia of love and compassion, of intelr I
Ugence and strength, is the ever^ |
preset, the ever-living God; if I
we live not unto Him we live not at ]
•U, bnt merely exist. I
narrow and our (keams too
small. Though armed -with phy
sical freedom, a good education,
and rights guaranteed us by the
Constitution of the United Sta
tes, millions of us are still bound
within the confines of our own
limited, thinking, so that even
when cJ^portunity Imocks we
are not always ready.
It seems a lot of us are still
kicking and beating on the door
screaming “let me in,” while
those on the inside might well
reply, “It’s open, ya dope—turn
the knob.” But nobody’s going
to tell us that all we have to do
is turn the, knob, because the
sooner we get in, _ the sooner
they’ll h%ve to “deal us in” on
the game.
The American dream has not
really been ours. Our visibility
has been limited to the point
where we could hardly realize
when the ceiling was lifted. But
this was the plan of a majority
who had sought to keep us for
ever ignorant of bur own
strength and potential. We
know better now, and it’s up to
us to broaden the horizons of our
children that the American prin
ciple of individual initiative and
freedom «will work for them,
too.
So, while we glory in our
9ast history? we ne^ed to make
a little history, too. There’s no
better way to start than in our
own communities. It would be
safe to say that there is hardly
a town or city in the United
States today where the Negro’s
life is so circimiscribed that Ne
gro parents cannot give their
children some view of life be-
ybnfl Iheir own back yaird. We
can offer them inspiration from
the past and from the present.
But we need also to keep up
their courage and bolster their
egos by setting an example for
them to follow in boldly chart
ing a course for them based on
the good old American belief
that “the sky is the limit.”
WASHINGTON AND
SMALL BUSINESS”
Justice Department is now in
vestigating Swiss watch cartel.
Whether or not any action results
under direction of reluctant Her
bert Brownell, facts dareloped
will be interesting to American
business men and oonsumers.
■ ♦ • ♦
Already facta seem to Indleaia
these two con-,
clusioD(;l.Idesj
that cartel bus
iness benefits
the public Is a
{allaojr; 2. No
body in tbel
U. S. A. with
ezoeption oi
small mlnorltyj
benefits.
* * •
Justice De- C.W. Harder
partment is studying Bulova rec
ords, probably nation’s biggest
importer of foreign watch move
ments. .
* • • ‘■
According to Justice Depart
ment allegations, tlie price of 17
jewel Swiss watch movements
set by a Swiss cartel at $4-00
each. Present import duties on
foreign 17 jewel watch move
ments brings the price up to $6.00
cach landed in this country,
where they are then cased, and
sold to public at prices ranging
from around $40 to flOO or over.
* • «
In American plants, it costs $10
to make a 17 jewel watch move
ment. Thus, even with {Present
tariff, Swiss watch movements
enter nation for 00% of the cost
of American made movements..
* *
Wliile Justice-Department is In
vestigating legality ot an Amer
ican hrm procuring merchandise
Rt cartel pegged prices, deeper
significance appears in Issue.
* * •
First there is tliis question:
Does the public benefit by the
fact that 17 jewel Swiss watch
movements land in nation for
40% less tlian U. S. cost?
* • ♦
As retail prices of IT Jewel
(g) Nttloiul jrwl;raUoii ot IaJt|wnl«Dt Btulotii
By C. WILSON HARDER
Swiss and survivtng" Ameiioaa
makes are oomparable, tbe aa*
swer appears negative.
« * *
Then this question: Do retailers
make better profit on Swiss
watches? From all evidence at
hand independent dealers maks
as much profit on American
made watches, although there
are unverified reports some
chain outlets make extra profit
on Swiss watches.
* • •
In meantime entire American
economy has suffered. A genera
tion ago there were many Amer
ican made watches, famed for
accuracy and long life.
* * •
Today, apparently only Hamil
ton, Klgin and Waltham survive,
fighting a bitter battle. And it is
a tribute to their ability that un
der American standards they can
produce for $10 a quality mech
anism that with cheap foreign la
bor costs $4.00.
* • •
New England, home of Amer
ican watch tra^ton, suffers se
rious unemployment.
jS « *
Situation also affects security.
« * «
Modem defense depends heavl-
If on time measuring mechan
isms. Tet, shrinking of V. «.
watch making Indnst^ Is^lso re
ducing the people trained In dif-
Hcolt precision techniques.
* * *
As already reported. It Is not
known whe&er Justice Depart
ment has valid case on the issue
it Is investigating. Many feel the
time would be better spent in
vestigating monopoly practices
at home, rather than abroad.
* •
But sItnaUon appears to em
phasise this viewpoint in coming
Congreislonal battle; the beat in
terest! of the United States will
ba served by protecting Amer
ican business and labor, not de
stroying it with low tariffs. And
the American watch industry i%
tost one of the many Jeo|)|irdlied
by lack '6f protection.
"Hiding The Issue Won't Solve It"
Spiritual Insight
“DANGEROUS AS A
RATTLESNAKE"
By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
“Look not upon wine ... It
biteth serpent . . .” Prov.
23:31, 32.
Alcohol has been an age old
scourge of the human family.
There is no solution of the prob
lem in sight. It has been a prob
lem since Noah planted a vine
yard and got drunk. Since that
tragic hour it has had its ravag
ing effects among men. It is
a great health and a moral pro
blem. 'This may be of little effect
so far as the confirmed alcoholic
is concerned. It may be a helpful
preventive for some youth.
Some youth may be saved from
its destructive impact by pon
dering the thought that ALCO
HOL IS MORE DANGEROUS
THAN A RATTLESNAKK. The
rattler warns before he strikes.
Alcohol strikes without warn
ing.
Let us ponder the perils and
pitfaUs of alcohol. It brought
many to untimely graves. It
wastes the energies and the gilts
of men. It blights and strangles
the genius of men. It has snuffed
out high dreams and hopes of
youth. It has robbed children of
the necessities of life. It has
brought unhappiness and ruin to
many homes. Remember the
seven lives snuffed out on the
highway recently because of
a drunken youth of 22? It has
meant tears and agony to many
wives and husbands.
Beware of Alcohol for it is
more dangerous than a rattle
snake. That*harmless drink may
be tije beginning of the end...“IT
BITETH LIKE A SERPENT...”
It wiU strip you of all that is
beautiful and good. It will leave
you trembling in a world of
agonized loneliness. It happened
to Noah, it will happen to you...
“He drank wine...and he was
uncovered within his tent...” It
will strip you of self reSpect and
and decency. This scourge will
strip you of your nobler senti
ments of self respect and decen
cy. It dethrones reason! It is a
blight of the soul. It plunges you
into the dark dungeon of fear,
anxiety, moral corruption,' un
reasonableness, suspicion, po
verty, pain, remorse and guilt.
B«war« of Alcohol..4UT BITE
TH LIKE SERPENT...”
The tragic consequences of its
ruin is written all' over the
newspapers of the land. We lay
more money on the devestating
shrine of Alcohol than we spend
for our churches. We feed this
destructive monster more than
we spend to educate our chil
dren. Then do you wonder at the
spiritual decay and the moral
corruption in the land? This
grim monster has crept into
the homes, high schools, col
leges and universities. The Tale
study recently published shows
the ravaging effects in the col
leges of the land. Where is the
monster leading us? It is lead
ing the crime parade and filling
the jails and penitentiaries.
Truly it is more dangerous
than a rattlesnake! Youth must
be warned of this peril to the in
dividual and the nation.
Let’s save our youth! LeTS"
warn our youth of this perilous
pitfall! Mother, tell your daugh
ters. Father, tell your sons.
Teachers, tell your students.
Preachers, tell your congrega
tions. What shall I tell them?
Tell them that alcohol is more
dangerous than a rattlesnake....
“LOOK NOT UPON WINE IT
BITETH LIKE A SERPENT...”
(If there is any problem drink
er or alcoholic who would like
help and healing with your sick
ness of ALCOHOLISM call 9-58
ness of Alcoholism, Call 9-5859
—We offer our services free).
-From The Churchman
(REPRINTED FROM THE CHURCHMAN FOR FEBRUARY 1)
In early July of last summer,
the House Committee on un-
American Activities held hear
ings in Boston over a period of
several days. One. of the chief
witnesses at these hearings was
Herbert A. Philbrick. He had
for nine years been an imder-
cover agent of the F. B. I. and
had in previous year appeared
before the committee as a wit
ness. He is now in the advertis
ing department of the New York
HERALD-TRIBUNE
In the course of his testimony,
Philbrick charged that seven or
eight Protestant clergymen in
the Boston area were part of a
communist conspiracy. When
pressed for'their names, he said:
“I am pretty certain I know who
they are, but I have never had
any direct legal ktiowledge as to
their identity." He was pressed
further by Mr. Kimzlg, the com
mittee attorney. ‘Mr. Philbrick,'
said Mr. Kunzlg, "seeing as we
are here in executive session,
and this testimony being confi
dential, do you feel that, you
could tell the conunittee the
names of these ministers in the
Boston area whom you, as you
have said, have a pretty good
idea were the ones you feel were
members of the Communist Par
ty?” Philbrick named, among
others, Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher of
the ^iscopal Theological Sch.,
Cambridge, faculty, and the
Rev. Kenneth DeP. Hughes, rec
tor of St. Bartholonew*s Episco
pal Church, Cambridge.
This heresay testimony, ac
cording to Mr. Kunzig, was
'confidential.” Yet the story
was carried by newspapers
throughout the country, the men
were named, and Aortly after,
the entire record ^ the hearings
was made public through go
vernment documents, copies of
which are available to anyone
who asks for them!
In other words, again in
nocent men were labeled
throughout the world as disloyal
citizens as the result of proce
dures which give a victim no
judicial rights of defense.
Evidently referring to Dr.
Fletcher and Mr. Hughes, among
others he named, Philbrick said:
“They were not true ministers
of the Gospel in any way, shape
or manner. They were commu
nists first hand, completely dedi
cated, hardened, steeled com
munists, because otherwise they
would never l>e a member of the
pro-group section.”
It is this kind of procedure
which Bishop Oxnam correctly
calls “lynching by label.” It is
obvious from the official record
that a commimist conspiracy
among the Boston clergy was
assumed before any testimony
was beard. • -
Fortunately, the diocese of
Massachusetts has a bishop who
is not easily deceived by such
procedures as those recorded in
the “confidential” published
pamphlets. Doin^ his duty un
der the canons of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, he has made
an investigation covering seve
ral months concerning the char
ges against two of his clergy
men. His conclusions, clearing
the two men, are printed else
where in this^ issue, a report
which none of our readers
should overlook.
There are, unfortunately,
many records of proceedings
which justify the designations
“witch hunt,” and “character as-
sasination.” There are none of
which we know, more charac
teristic than these hearings in
Boston.
Just how long sire intelligent
Protestant Americans going to
stand for such wrecking crews
bent on destroying our Bill of
Rights, including tlie rights of
Protestant leaders to put the
teachings of Jesus into practice?
Or are we so deluded by propa
ganda and so timid that we are
willing to let America revert to
the persecution techniques of the
Roman Emperors against Chris
tians? Or—have Protestants yet
to learn the meaning of their
religion?
What right has one man, the
Attorney General, to decide
which groups in our American
society are loyal or disloyal?
Where is the precedent or the
law which gives him the right to
list without due process certain
groups as “communist fronts”?
And what is the “official” defi
nition of a communist front? Or
isn’t there any? Perhaps we can
halp out by quoting Leon Bhrk-
head, who, before his Friends of
Democracy went out of business,
used to close all of his letters
with the slogan, “Yours for the
democratic way of life.” In.an
elaborate dossier attacking THE
CHURCHMAN in 1949, distri
buted to the press, Mr. Brick-
head, believe it or not, said; "By
definition, a communist fronter
is one who denies being associ
ated with toe communist politi
cal or prcnagdioia movement."
You’d betrer read that one twice!
And don’t \flo ahy denying.
We raise these questions be
cause we are delighted that the
National Lawyers Guild has
filed a suit to determine whether
any government official has the
right to list organizations, in
cluding those in the churches,
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