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m CAROLINA nms
SATURDAY. MARCH IS, 1M4
THE YARDSTICK OF DEMOCRACY
We hav« just gotten around the fact that on January 1,
to it. Ih the N*w Yowt Timks 1963 we will celebrate 100
magazine section of February years of emancipation and
7 Chester Bowks, writing on asks, “How far will we have
“The Negro—ft«gress And cortie toward ftill fpeedom for
Challen^” says that a Pak- all Americans?" Says he fur-
istani business man once ther, “Any great ^tange takes
sUted to him that Americans time but 100 years is a long,
Number One obstacle to Asian long time. In these days it
friendship is its racial dis- seems long ei^ough to accom-
crimination a^unst its own plish anything.”
colored citizens. In other We think Mr. Bowles ^ows
words the Negro in the Unite^ a deep insight into the racial
States has become the Asian problem in America. His arti-
yardstick of American Demo- cle needs to be read by men
cracy, if not of the world. like Gtovemor Talmadge of
Says Bowles further, “The Georgia, Governor Byrnes of
colored peoples who comprise South Carolina and thousands
two-thirds of the world’s of other demagogues all over
population simply cannot the South who are the real
think about the tJnited States instigators of race hatred. For
without considerii^ bitterly every city, town and county
the limitations under which in the South has its big boss
, our 15,000,000 Americans who, while not showing his
^with colored skins are living.!’ hand, hands down to dull.
He goes on to state tlut thickheaded masses what at-
“Some thoughtful Americans, titude they must take on any
fearful that each step may do issue pertaining to the Negro,
more harm than good have Here in Durham the source
cautioned us to move slowly, of all evil on the race ques-
But the world situation and tion is well-known to most
our responsibilities of leader- Negroes of average intelli-
ship enter at this point and gence. Not even the Mayor,
tell us that time is running the Chief of Police or the City
out. The struggle for the very Manager or any other high
survival of the free way of ciyt official will dare oppose
doing things requires Amer- that source once it passes
ica to show that democratic down the orders. Even Negro
methods can solve deep-root- leaders in certain quarters
ed injustice quickly and jump or feign jumping in or-
peacefully.” der that they too might not
Although the author cites get too far out of line with the
several instances of the pro- sources wishes,
gress being made in the fight So, it is not the progress of
against segregation he plain- the Negro that presents a
ly shows much impatience in problem but his lack of pro
gress in achieving, undter our
so-called democratic form of
government, full citizenship
and human dignity before the
eyes of two-thirds of the
world’s population, which as
Mr. Bowles points out, is
colored.
While this is being written,
Monday night, March 8, the
entire colored world awaits
with abated breath the de
cision of the United States
Supreme Court on the matter
of segregation. What the
court does in this most
momentous case, Governor
Byrnes and Governor Tal
madge notwithstanding, is the
yarc^tick by which America’s
sincerity about Democracy
will be measured. American
leadership and two-thirds of
the world’s population stand
at the crossroad, the clock in
the tower has struck and the
hand is now pointing toward
its most shining or its darkest
hour. The big question, as
Thurgood Marshall put it, is
whether or not the Supreme
Court of the United States
\*iknts to say to two-thirds of
the world’s population that
the 15 million Negroes in
America are unfit to associate
on an equal basis with other
American citizens.
So as Mr. Bowles says “Asia
and Africa have become the
crucial balance in the cold
war and we need to examine
discrimination in terms of our
national security and the fu
ture of the free world.”
INTERNATIONAL MORAL RE-ARMAMENT
You read on the frwit page
of this week’s issue of the
Carolina Times an account
of an international moral re
armament team which is now
in Capetown, Africa holding
interracial meetings and
pled^ng “to fight for the re
making of South Africa on a
new dimension under the
direction of God.” Those who
believe in force, those who
belike that only in more and
^-J&igger hydrogen and atomic
bombs is there to be found a
formula for peace, will pro
baby scoff at the idea. They
will scoff because the move
ment started in Africa and
will sneeringly ask like critics
did about Bethlehem nearly
2,000 years ago, can any good
come out of Atoca?
We think, however, that
there is much to learn from
the moral rearmament team
which may have the aswer
for what ails the world today.
One thing is certain mankind
cannot continue to follow the
jgesen^ _^^njerrcan, British
an3~Russian leadership down
the road to certain doom in
their hell-bent r^e to build
more and bigger destructive
bombs. Any movement that
has as its objective the bring
ing together of men of all
races, creeds and colors as
equals appears to us to be the
only one that will make it pos
sible for mankind to continue
to live on this earth.
This newspaper, which has
never accepted the Amer^n^:,
conception of JDfem6CTacy,
like to see a moral re
armament program started
in the United States. Certain
ly the movement has more
hope for the world than the
atomic and hydrogen bomb
race now going on..
SWEEPING IN FRONT OF OTHER FOLKS' DOOR
Billy Graham, the Ameri
can evangelist, is busy preach
ing the gospel to the people
in England. We don’t kj^ow
Tidw theHev. Mr. Graham is
going to square the fact that
his preaching here in the
South was not strong enough
to have his ardent listeners
abandon their idea that it is
alright to segregate even in
the house of God, so long as
those segregated are Negroes.
It appears to us that one
should sweep from in front of
his own door before he jour
neys 3,000 miles across the
Atlantic Ocean to sweep in
front of another’s door.
Evangelist Graham has
been reported to sidestep the
issue of segregation in his
crusades here in America,
which is hard for us to un
derstand about any person
who actually believes in the
Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man.
A jim crow pulpit, we
think, is an afront to God Al
mighty, whether it be in an
evangelist meeting or in an
ordinary church service. The
CABOLmA Times does not in
tend to let the issue rest un
til every pulpit in America
becomes free and untram
meled. We intend to stand at
the door of white America’s
concience continuously knock
ing until every tongue con
fess that “Of a truth I per
ceive that God is no respector
of person . . . And hath made
of one blood all nations for to
dwell on all the face of the
earth.” We intend to stand
there continuously knocking
because we know that our
own country can never be
safe so long as it denies free
dom to the humblest man
among us solely on the ground
that his skin is not as light as
another’s.
KO ASSURANCE FOR HICKSTOWN SCHOOL
The City Board of Educa
tion has listed ten major pro
jects for the school needs of
Durham. Topping the list is
the Walltown School on Club
Boulevard which, so far as
any sensible citizen will be
able to observe, is sadly in
need of more space and more
and better facilities. Too long
this particular school has
been neglected and it is only
right that the Board of Edu
cation should list it high
among the most urgent needs
in the entire city school sys
tem.
From the release appearing
in the morning newspaper,
however, there is no way of
telling whether or not the
Board intends to do anything
about the deplorable condi
tion existing at the Hickstown
School. If the Board intends
to build a new school in that
vicinity the article did not say
so. Certainly there is no com
munity within the city of Dur
ham with school facilities as
deplorable as those existing
in the Hickstown area. To
merely mention the urgent
need there gives absolutely no
assurance that anything is go
ing to be done to improve
school facilities in that vi
cinity. ,
Already the Board has
overstepped the bounds of the
federal order issued by Judge
Johnston J. Hayes in the re
cent school suit brought here,
by continuously appropriat
ing money for the ipiprove-
ment of white schools which
according to our observation
does little or nothing to de
crease the differential that
existed at the time the suit
was brought, in spite of the
improvements made on Negro
schools.
Negro citizens of Durham
are trying with all their
might to exercise patience in
the efforts of the Board of
Education to bring equal
facilities within the school
system of Durham. They
know they were handed a
lemon in the construction of
a gymnasium at Hillside High
School when it is compared
with the gymnasium at the
Durham High School. They
also know that there are vast
inequalities existing in other
areas of the schoq) system and
we think the time has come
when the Board should give
some definite assurance of its
intention to equalize the
school system as ordered by
Judge Hayes.
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SATURDAY CltfCwSflU €l«Cg MARCH 13, 1954 f
SBSaBHHSiX
L. E. AUSTIN, Pabllsher
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UNITED NATIONS NOTES
Qy JAMES R. LAWSON ,
(Accredited UN Correspondent) '
UNTTED NATIONS, N. Y.
TOGOLAND—Three spokea-
men tix Togoland peoples put
on their colorful African dreaa
laat week to make an appeal to
the United Nations Trusteeahip
Council. They had come to urge
unification of their Britiah ad
ministered territory with tba
neighboring Gold Coast, which
also is administered by Britian
and has been promised indepen
dence within a few years. *nie
petitioners, Solomon Togle Fle-
ku, Joseph Henry AUassani, and
Jacob Kwadwo Mensah, all
spoke in fluent English, which
they had learned in Gold Coast
Schools. They expressed the
view that cultured tie* uid eco
nomic necessity made it more
advantageous for their territory
to be joined with the Gold
Coast, tlian to French adminis
tered Togoland.
NEAR EAST_The difficulUes
in this area were spotlighted by
(1) the ouster of Syrian Presi
dent Shishekly’s government
and (2) the shakeup in Egypt
which swept General Naguib out
as President and Premier, but
also brought him back as Presi
dent with reduced powers. In
ternal pressures were the imme
diate causes, failiu:e of both Na
guib and Shiahekly to aatisfy the
strong nationalist elements in
their countries. At the same
time, the timing of the two
shakeups seems to have been in
fluenced by events in Washing
ton, Ankara and Karachi which
brought about the Turkish- Pa
kistani pact and U.S. arms aid
to Pakistan. Nationalist ele
ments in Egypt and Syria, ex
tremely cool toward cooperation
with the West, believed Nagtiib
and Shishekly were showing
signs of wealmess in that re
spect. The whole iUustrates the
maciitude of the job remaining
for %e United States in a vital
area.
TRAVEL. NOTE...Vemon Yar-
bough, Detroit hotel and real es
tate operator, was entertained
by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Benja
min Duncan (he is the Liberian
Secretary of Public Works and
Utilities) before lilr. Yarbough
took off for a wtiirlwind trip to
Birmingham, New Orleans and
Mexico City. Mr. and Mrs. Dun
can will leave soon for a honey
moon in Europe before return
ing to Liberia. Mrs. Duncan is
the former Elouise Collier of
Rahway, New Jersey and Wash
ington, D. C.
GETTING ALONG
By LAUREEN WHITE
NEW YORK, (GLOBAL)
When people have prejudices
against somebody or something
they should have some method
of identifying the objects of
their prejudices. A reported in
cident in the life of Dr. Ralph
Bunche illustrates the stupidity
of blind prejudice.
When Trygve Lie was Sec
retary General of the
dinner was given by members of
the Secretariat. Dr. Bunche was
seated between two ladies.
Trygve Lie proposed a toast to
the President, then Harry Tru
man. As they drank the toast,
one of the ladies '
hope Iw fb-clscs.” When asked
'WKb she meant she said, “Harry
Truman.”
Dr. Bunche asked the woman
why she wanted Harry Truman
to choke, and she replied, “Oh
he has no background. He is a
nobody. Why, he used to be a
haberdasher.”
Then D^. Buij^e explainipdj
to the wonofan that America was
a land of opportunity and many J Magazine HilS Segregation in
persons of lowly origin had'risen
to places of prominence here.
He gave Abraluun Lincoln as an
example. Apparently the lady
didn’t recognize Dr. Bunche as
being a Negro, because her next
comment was, “You talk like
some of those people who think.
Negroes are as good as whitej
- I
This caUed for more diirio-
Negro?”
Dr. Bunche quietly replied,
“Since I am a Negro and my
wife is a Negro, I don't see how
I could object to my daughter
marrying a Negro.”
When the woman insisted that
Dr. Bunche “was different” from
other Negroes, he busied Mm-
self explaining that'this was not
true Then he said, “It seems to
me that if a person is to have
prejudices, he first ought to have
a means of identifying the per
son he wants to be prejudiced
against.”
in The Editor's
Nail Bag
The Editor
Dear Sir:
I have read with interest the
jitem on the first page of your
MaKh 6 issue,-4ieaded “Catjiolic
macy'on the part of Dr. Bunch.
He quoted at length from recog
nized Anthropologist telling her
many startling things about the
findings of eminent scientists on
the myth of racial superoirity.
The lady’s next remark was
designed to embarrass her tor
mentor. She asked, “Would you
want your daughter to marry a
Housing.”
It is truly refreshing to see
this belated interest in the mem
bers of the colored race being
manifested by the Catholic
Church.
It was Catholic Spain and Ca
tholic Portugal and their Catho
lic monarchs who instituted Af
rican .slavery in tiie miiidlp of
the fifteenth century and carried
it to the New World. The Catho
lic Church did not even recog
nize the Negro as a human being
until about four Hundred years
later, nor did she ever officially
condemn the slavery practice in
the United States.
Truly yoturs,
Roscoe Thomas
WASHINGTON AND
SMALL BUSINESS
If there is one buainesi th« pub
lic would believe ai remaining
strictly independent. It is that Of
the junkman.
• * •
Tct, U the Federal Trade Com
mission proves oharfes It has
filed In recard to the Iron and
steel scrap Indastry, the loaf
tentacles of,
monopoly prao-
tlce have now!
clutched Uie^
Junkman,
* • *
Tha com
plaint charges
that Lurisi
Brotheri and*
Company, Inc.
of Philadelphia C.W. Harder
and subsidiary Southweit Steel
Corporaticm hag engaged In a
huge conspiracy to restrain froe
Qow of/iron and steel scrap.
• * *
Also olted In complaint afo
many Iron and steel producer^
headed by mammoth VaitiM
Btotes Steel.
• * •
As Is well known to all who
cooperated In wartime scrap
metal drives, scrap is vital In
steel production, as vlrgiiai iron
ore is not sufficient by itsoH
* a *
JTO allecea Lnria Bros., act
ing as brokers, has coerced both
■u^dlers uid boyers of scrap to
deal oidy with theaa. la addttlan,
they have ooa^ired with atoal
mills, Inolndlng U. B. Sled, to
permit them to act aa ezetaulve,
w substantially ■zclualve brok
en o( the mills aorap needa.
* • •
In addition, FTC charges, KjU-
xla Bros, and Southwest adls
finfUied and semi-finiahed Iron
and steel products to fabrloa*
tors eo condition the fabricatiars
Mil aU thalr scrap to Luria.
0 miiumi iWrtiM if
iBy C. WILSON HARDER
The complaint also charges the
liOrla Bros, bid and paid excea-
•Ively high prices to upset the
twn and steel Industry.
* • •
Also FTC charges that since
1946 the Luria'people acquired all
or substantial parts of the cap
ital atock of aix leading, prev-'
iously Independent scrap com
panies and has continued to op
erate them SPC saya aa “bogus
independents.”
« • •
TUs oasa oonid hay* wide-
sp«ad tanj^atkms.
• • *
From 1048 whra the Luria
Bros, stepped hito high gear and
through the Korean War, inde
pendent fabricators of steel were
pinched both by shortages and
so-called black and grey steel
maxkats.
• a *
Tkla appears ta be case of avao
more far reaching oonaeqaenqea
than tte scrap battery lead caaa
wUoh foUowad the same monep-
oUatlo tread. Itat the qaeatlOB
aaked by auuy is that even tt
WTO proves Ita case, what will
bathaiasalt. „
a a a
In tha sorap battery lead casa,
the Justice Department under
Herbert Brownell, agreed to tok
en punlshmsDts In tha form o
fines and premiss to “go and
sin no more.”
a a a
In this oaae and la tiia battery
lead caae, It doaa not appear vl»-
latien a( aatl trast laws was ba-
oaoaa o( lalsaaderatandhig a(
tarhnlnallttes which Is so often
oaed aa aa argament ta repeal
anti trnat lawa. It Is doabtfal that
a manopoly Jast happens by aa-
oldsnt. Tat, wliaa ponlahment la
nsaaBy m^arata fines rtpr^
aentlng only traction af illegal
proflta there Is andonbtedly a
great aad oontinnlng bicantlva ta
Eliminating These Evils, Remove The Temptation
i
Spiritual Insight
“PRAY FOR THEM”
By EE^^EREND HAROLD ROLAND*
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
“Bless them that curse you..,
prow for them that despiteful-
ly use you..” Luke 6:28.
”/ords the Master re
vealed the very essence of spiri
tual wisdom and beauty. Ttiis
command is difficult for the na
tural man. For the unredeemed
pride and sin bloclcs the way.
To pray for those who despite-
fully use us we must be bom of
the spirit of God. You must have
the holy spirit and the love of
God in your heart to scale these
exalted heights of the SPIRIT!
We must have the in^elling
power ofHhe Holy Spirit |o pray
for...“THEM THAT DEBPITE-
FULLY USE US...” How many
times have dodged and refused
to speak to that person who has
cursed and done evil to you.
Most of us are guiUy at this
point . Now isn’t lt true? Many
times have we failed at ttiis
point. Why? It goes against the
grain of nature in the raw. But
human nature under the magic
touch of Grace can pray for the
enemy.
To pray for that enemy brings
peace and power to the soul.
When you do good for the enemy
you grow spiritually in your
own estimation and in the sight
of the enemy. Do good to the
enemy and you make him shame
of liimself. You make the enemy
feel cheap-he becomes inwardly
uneasy!
Pray for that enemy and
watch yourself grow spiritually.
In thus conducting yourself you
know the beauty of the highest
spiritual wisdom. Life can be
beautiful when it is lived as the
master lived it.
In praying for those who de-
spitefully use you, you are ele
vated to higher ground spiritual
ly. I have seen it. God luiows it
works. Very few people like to
be thought of as being mean and
cussed. In doing good for the
enemy you strike that inner
sense of decency in your own
soul .as well as that of the so-
called enemy. In doing good for
the enemy you leave him in a
spiritual gutter. You strip hiA
and leave him in the ciiiily at
mosphere if 'stn and littleness.
Ip doing good for the enemy you
leave him with a sense of shame.
He gets shame of the lower
level. Your love will draw him
up to a higher level. Refuse to
go down in the gutter where the
enemy is...“BLESS THEM....
PRAY FOR THEM...”
In blessing those who curse
you, grow in health and happi
ness. We all want health and we
all want happiness. “Bless them
that curse you...” and you will
be happy. And a sure way to
health of soul and mind is to
“pray for them that despite-
fully use you...” We hear much,
now about mental health. Jesus
here gives one of the formulas
for mental health. Vengeance
warps the mind! Love gives sta
bility and peace of mind. Hatred
consumes the soul like a cancer. t
It drags your soul down In the
gutter. I know you want to be
a big-hearted gracious soul.
Then leam the wisdom of the
master...“Love your enemy....
do good to them that hate you...”
An honest, sincere prayer for
the enemy worlcs wonders in
your own soul. Stop now and ut
ter a prayer for that enemy. The
test comes when you pray for
-tire enemy. Anybody can tove
the lovely. We have achieved
spiritual granduer when we love
the unlovely and the cussed. Ji.
prayer for the enemy dignifies
and adds spiritual glow to the
soul.
NEGUGENCE KIU5 IN AUTOS; IN CANCER,
DEUY IS FATAL
NEW YORK
Motor vehicle accidents—99JZ
per cent of them caused by care
lessness—killed 39,000 Ameri
cans in 1952. The same year,
73,000 Americans—nearly twice
that number—died of cancer
largely through negligence or
lack of information; Hed their
cases been diagnosed in time,
their lives could' have been
spared.
Anothr 73,000 cancer patients
in the United States were saved
in 1952 by early diagnoses and
prompt treatment.
The total cancer deaths in this
country in 1952 were 225,000,
nine times the 25,000 Ameri
cans killed during three ye^rs
of warfare on Korean battle
fields.
Medical authorities estimate
that half of today’s cancer vic
tims could be saved if diagnosis
is made while the disease is
still loc^ and treatment is un
dertaken soon enou^.
Hundreds of scientists work
ing under institutional grants
from the American Cancer So
ciety, are engaged in research
to discover new methods that
will be successful in cancer
cases now considered incurable.
EDUCATION NATIONWIDE
MeanwhUe, the Society W is
conducting a nationwide public
education campaign to reduce
the appalling number of cancer
deaths.
The vital need for this pro
gram was highlighted by a re
cent Gallup poll. This country
wide survey showed that one
out of every two persons ques
tioned was unaware ttiat cancer
was curable and 46 per cent did
not know any of cancer’s most
common symptoms.
The Cancer Society’s educa
tional program has two major
ainis. One is to inform Ameri
cans that cancer is often curable
and that early treatment is of
the utmost importance if lives
are to be saved. The other pur
pose is to teach the public the
value of periodic health exami
nations and how to recognize the
most common and easily recog
nized cancer symptoms. These
symptoms have been publicized
throughout the United States as
cancer’s seven danger signals.
The signals which mey mean
cancer and which should al
ways mean a visit to a physician
are;
1. Any sor« that does not heal.
2. A lump or thickening in the
breast or risewhere.
S. Unusual bleeding or dls-
cliarge.
4. Any change in a wart or
mole.
5. Persistent indigestion or
difficulty in swallowing.
6. Persistent hoarseness or
cough.
7. Any change in normal bow
el habits.
For its educational program,
the Society tills year will spend
more than $3,000,000 to spread
its message through newspapers,
magazines, posters, pamphlets,
window displays, exhibits, mo
tion pictures, television and ra
dio. Funds for continuing the
program are now being raised
by the American Cancer Society.
STRAIGHT AHEAD
By OLIVE
NEW YORK (GLOBAL)
Just to keep the ledger
straight, we like to enter a cre
dit to balance a debit, A couple
of weeks ago, we had a lot to
say about Edward R. Murrow’s
TV program “See It Now” on
February 9, which we felt had
presented a completely distorted
view of Negro life in America.
It was oiu contention, and still
is, that if ever we are to achieve
anything like brotherhood and
mutual respect, we can’t do it
until we know the trUth about
each other. Certainly pity is hot
a good foundation upon which to
build any such understanding,
nor is disgust. Those are |ctual
the only two reactions that any
one cotild have had to such a
program.
A. ADAMS
At a time when this country is
doing its all to combat Com
munist propaganda; at a time
when many people have expres
sed the opinion that* the darker
peoples in other parts of the
world mistrust America be
cause of her treatment of Ne
groes, we ought to be careful
about the kind of story we tell
about American life.
Certainly the picture has its
lights and shadows, but that Is
true of the life of any group in
this country. While keeping in
mind the big job still to be done,
it is well at times to reflect on
what has been done, and lay
further plans for the future. ’The
whole American public is all too
well acquainted with the story
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