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PAGE TWO THE CAROLINA TIMES ORCHIDS FOK OUR WHIE CITIZENS SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1954, as they possibly can, irreepec- , tive of the pastoral letter of last June 12 which now ap- ' pears to have been published for public consumption rather We think'the white citizens Durham and North Carolina realization of hotel accom- of Durham, including the an organization composed of modations that will provide . ^ Chamber of Commefce, the so many men and women of for Negro visitors to the city . Merchants Association and high cahbre as gueste for a the same as has been obtain- | , the City of Board of Educa- tour-day stay. It is our candid ed for them in Miami Beach, tion. are due orchids for the opinion that all of Durham’s Florida. We are of the opin- genera y a siuo- splendid manner in which citizens profited from the an-t ion that this is not too far off, ■ they cooperated with the N. nual session of NNIA and that to be considered an impos- C. Mutual Life Insurance any other tity that entertains sibility for Durham. Company and the Winston the association’s annual meet- If and when such does hap- Mutual Life Insurance Com- ing will be dually benefited, pen it is going toitake a little pany in entertaining the 34th The 34th annu^ session of courage and le«Kiership the annual session of the National NNIA proved conclusively same as was exhibited during Negro Insurance Association that Durham is fast becoming the NNIA convention. We be- last week. We are of the opin- a convention city of un- lieve Durham will accept the ion that the type of coopera- equalled possibilities and that innovation in its stride the tion, which was given, has in tim6 other Negro conven- same as was done to entertain not been duplicated in any tions of even larger delega- our guests last week when city in North Carolina. tions may find here a hos- many new horizons in inter- We also feel that N. C. Mu- pitable atmosphere unsur- racial cooperation were suc- tual and Winston Mutual are passed elsewhere. The only cessfully explored, due orchids for bringing to thing now necessary is -the born lot. They do not very easily yield to demands of the laity of the church, to say nothing of persons outside the Catholic world. As we see it now Negro Catholics in Dur ham who have been refused admission to Immaculata School may as well seek schools elsewhere for their children’s education. 'Judge Us By The, New Trend, Starting With The School Case Decision." NORTH CAROLINA COUEGE LAW SCHOOL'S APPROVAL OTHER PAPERS SAY Maintoining A Menace There is hardly anything other as law enforcement offl “fiillv an- '■he American Bar Associa- University of North Caro- vm^ri tion, we think, is further testi- lina law school, remains yet can Bar AtoUon. Unto mony of Dean Turner’, forth- ^ te Such . .pollcy^is September 11,1954 Saturday L. B CLATHAN M. BOBS, Editor J. ALLBN CARTER, Muucinc Editor PubUalMd Ever/ BatunUjr by tha DMITU) ;>UBUSHKB8. InoorporaMd at 518 E. PatOcnw St. ■atei«4 M wcentf aUia matter at dia Poat Oftlaa at Dnrttam. Morth Carolina imdar tba Act of March S. xm. MaUoaol AdvarlMw ■iprmntitlTo: iDtmtate UaMad IWiHpapan. MMPA. AUSTIN, PnblUher M. E. JOHNSON, BusineM Manacer R. J. HAYNES, Advertising Manacer No (uarantaa of publication of unablldted mate rial. Letter* to tha adltor for publication must be •tgnad and confined to 900 word*. Sulxcriptton Rate*: lOe par copy; Wz montha, (2.00; One Year, *S.OO (Foralcn Cnuntrlei, *4.00 per rear.) more dangerous a community can do than keep in the position of armed law enforcement offi cer one who has shown himself ready to violate the law. And Frank W, Carter Jr., former chief of two North Carolina towns, who murdered his mother-in-law this week, is a classic example of the kind of policeman no self-respecting or self-protecting community should ever have around. Carter was once chief of po I lice in Franklinton, near which he killed his mother-in-law. While working in that capacity there he shot and seriously in jured a Negro man. Later he was suspended from’ his job by the Franklinton Town Board He got other police jobs, how ever, as deplity, as a State ABC Board inspector, then as chief of police of Clayton. While in that job he shot and killed a Negro and though a coroner’s jury ruled “justifiable homi cide,” he was brought to trial in the Clayton Recorder’s Court and probable cause was found. However, -he was freed of the charge when the Johnston County Grand Jury at the next session of Superior Court failed to return a true bill. He was suspended as chief of police after he got drunk at an American Legion meeting and engaged in an affray. He was retained as chief then though he was ordered to resign from the Legion and stay away from places that sold alcoholic beverages except in the line of duty. Soon, however, he was caught driving the town police car while drunk and was fired by the Clayton Town Board. It would be difficult to draw from the record a man less qualified to be given badge and pistol. Obviously he could not control him self.He killed one man and seriously wounded an- A word of commendation is school among those of pre- ly to keep at a minimum the due Dean Albert L. Turner dominantly Negro enrollment nuniber of Negroes who for having steered the N. C. to receive accreditation by Law School to proved” status by the Ameri can Bar Association. Under i/caji iuinci a ivim- Dean Turner's gu°da„ce the leadership. o.«»ly NCC Law School h^ already The approval should in- I, lili”? iL Sue turned out several lawyers crease the number of students ^hat it will follow the trend who are making tteir mwk now enrolled from North f^^ms of segregation, before the bar. With a “fuUy Carolina and give impetus to ^^ich is complete abandon- approved status it is to be the number applying for mgnt expected that it will gain entrance from other states. , i. i ^ more prestige as the years go This, plus the fact that the „ Si by, and its graduates will be institution is located in Dur- 9' 9° the eirt e heard from in their chosen ham, where some of the lar- * ^ matter, profession, gest business enterprises of should throw open its d^rs to Ai A ^ - J the race are domiciled, places j i ^ Akeady adjudged by m^y j^^C law school in a most in Durham as actually the position where it at least partially justly ite ex best school or department at could, in time, become one of jstence, the same as State Col- NCC.it now assumes Its plaw ^he most outstanding in the lege m ^le^h and the N. C. among the other approved nation for providing compet- pUege for Women m Greens- law schools of the nation Un- corporation lawyersf if ^ \his is not done, the der Dean Turner’s guid^ce „^t in the field of criminal state, for the s^e of economy, there is httle doubt that, if may eventually close it the allowed to continue to oper- ^ same as has been done in ate, it will be pushed t9 even It thus appears that North Missouri where a similar law higher recognition. The law Carolina now has two ac- school for Negroes was es- school’s approval at J'JCC is credited law schools, one at tablished at Lincoln Univer- strong evidence that its lead- Chapel Hill and one at Dur- sity, and finally closed when ership is keeping pace with ham. Whether the state will state officials saw the futility the best in its field. That it is be willing to continue to oper- of trying to operate separate the first state-suppbrted law ate the one in Durham, mere- law schools for the races, CATHOLIC CHURCH SEGREGATION IN DURHAM There may not be anything One member, whose chil- our readers to determine rotten in the state of Den- dren were “born in the Cath- whether or not Negro stu- mark but there is something olic church,” has tried repeat- dents are being deliberately rotten in the Catholic Church edly for more than a year to barred from the Immaculata in Durham. Interviews with have his four children enroll- school here, several Negro Catholics and ed in the Immaculata School Officials of the Catholic an official of the church in here. In a letter to Bishop school in DurriSte may at- this city reveal case after Vincent S, Waters he charges tempt to take refuge behind case of sordid practices on the that when he , told Father the claim that Immaculata is race issue that are more be- Charles J, O’Connor, under already filled. They cannot coming to Mississippi planta- whose jurisdiction the Im- very easily explain, however, tion owners than a Christian maculata School operates, just why Sister Joan Marie church, either Catholic or that he desired to have his told the father over the phone t_ant , gnrollfiKl hft Wflff told tbflt philHrf*n In spite of the pastoral let- by the priest that “there welcomed from the Catholic ter, issued to the Catholic should not be any problem to School in Winston-Salem, “re clergy and laity of the Diocese get them enrolled except that gardless of their religion,” of Raleigh last June 12 by it was something that had not and then turned them down as Bishop Vincent S. Waters, de- been done before,” soon as she discovered that daring that “there is no seg- When the Carolina Times the father and his children regation of races to be toler- questioned Father O’Connor were Negroes, The officials ated in the Diocese of Ral- as to the reason why the four will not be able to very easily eigh,” the ruling of the United children had not been ad- explain just why when the States Supreme Court of May mitted we were informed that ^father of the children applied 17, striking down segregation the father of the children in person to fill out the ap- in public schools, and the ac- knew why they had not been plication which Father O’Con- ceptance of Negroes in Cath- accepted and that he (Father nor had informed him he had olic schools of Raleigh, Char- O’Connor) did not care to until the first week in August lotte and Greenville, the disclose the reason to the to fill out that Sister Joan Catholic .church in Durham press. When the Times repre- Marie accused him of being continues on its miserable sentative questioned Father deceitful, way, apparently sidestepping O’Connor further as to why If the Immaculata School and ducking the matter of ad- a statement was given the in Durham is to be an oasis in mitting Negroes to the local press and publish^ in The which those who wish to con- CathoUc school, Durham Morning Herald that tinue the unholy practice c * The Carolina Times has in, no Negroes had applied for segregation may find refug^ ^ve departed its possession certain docu- admission when there were at officials ought to openly state ' ’ ’ ments, letters and other in- least four applications on file and not pretend that the struments that tend to make at the time he stated that one school here is to be governed us suspicious that the whole of the sisters who had recent- by the policy as recently laid official staff of the Catholic ly come to Durham gave out down by Bishop Waters, Such churches in Durham is rotten the statement and was not a pronoimcement will keep to the core. Interviews with aware of the applications be- down much of the misunder- Negro members and local ing on file. standing and loss of faith priests disclose that most of Elsewhere in this newspa- which the church is now ex- the Negro Catholics in this per we have published in part periencing in Durham, city are more nearly toler- a letter written to Bishop Wa- In justice to the many fine ated by Church offici^ than ters by tHe father of the chil- people of both races in the accepted as members on an dren, complaining of the Catholic Church in Durham equal level. In several in- treatment he had received at and throughout the nation, stances they informed the the hands of the Bishop, him- this newspaper is satisfied Carolina Times that they have self. Father O’Connor and that the policy as demon- even been asked out of the Father John A. Risacher of strated by the Catholic church church when they tried to the Holy Cross Mission, a jim in Durham is not that of the contend for their rights as crow structure, set aside church in general. It is our members. In one or more in- principally for Negro mem- candid opinion that high stances they have had doors bers of the Catholic church in church officials in the Diocese slammed ip their faces by an Durham, At the urgent re- of Raleigh and local church irate priest who appears to quest of the father of the officials are being influenced assume an attitude that Ne- children we are withholding by sources in Durham and gro members of the Catholic his name. The letter speaks will delay admitting Negroes church are a necessary evil, for itself and we leave it to to Immaculata School as long cer. Both shootings, of course, may have been “jutified. Juries understand that officers meet some pretty tough custo mers and are apt to be disposed to take the law enforcement officer’s side in such cases, In dee^, it is important that all people have an express confi dence in their officers. That does not mean, however, that any community in its right mind should keep a man whose repu tation does not justify confi dence. Putting a badge on a man with a shooting and a law breaking record and keeping it there is not protecing a com munity but endangering it. Some communities have felt that they needed tough men to take care of “bad Negroes,” The result has often been a swag gering menance to all decent colored people and, though less apparent, a threat to all white people, too. As this man Car ter has shown, the killer does not always observe the color line. Police officers, who are gene rally poorly paid and required to do much hard and dangerous work, deserve the support of their communities. Good offi cers also deserve to have their ranks freed from men brought into the ranks of law enforce ment with law-breaking records behind them. They deserve also to be .freed from association with swaggering quick-trigger bullies and from men who take pride in being tough which is in their cases only another word for being mean— even often sadistic to the point of being psychopatic. This man Carter as killer is now subject only to the courts, which will deal with him on the charge of murder. He serves, how-ever, as a good example (Please turn to Page Seven) mmo Spiritual Insight "Spiritual Hints For Teachers" BY REVEREND HAROU) ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptbt Church LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NNIA EDITION To the Editor: I firmly believe that if a per son does a job well he or she should be told about it while he can hear it, and not over a bank of artificial flowers and fern and a steel basket. So I take this tiw T>f thanking the Rev, H, Albert Smith for his article of Sept, 4 on Durham and its churches. To me it was a source of aspiration, inspiration, edu cation and Information. I am sure no one who was not men tioned by name felt the least bit slighted. Knowing the Rev, Smith as I do, I know he wrote from his heart. I enjoyed every word of the article and have read it over several times. I am putting it in my library for our children’s future reference. I pray for the day when our newspapers will carry more of such as this and less whiskey, beer and other degrading mate rials, Again, I say thanks and God bless you, Mr».> fOi-A C. MASON Morrisvllle, N, C, To the Editor: Congratulations on your big big issue of the 4th, It is very educational to a guy like me, to learn something about Dur ham, If, only such information could be spread to every Negro home in North Carolina, as it See LETTERS, Page 7 WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS Hie tumult and the shouting and Congress- and th« stil ling, hazy heat of late summer settles along the Potomac, • « « In this refleotlTC quiet, many things are bcinK welfhed. The once widely haUed Great Cro> ■ a d e appears! to have davel-j oped into fashioned brai nlgan. Opiniom are shifting. Before C o n r ress again ooo' venes, talk with hom folks change opi ons eren more.' * For example, no longer a fighting epithet. It is not now necessary to smile when calling a man that. C.W. Harder isolationist Belief seems emerging black mailing payments are no surety of peace, or friendship or a stopper of CommDnlsm. Ameri can people fail to see where giv ing dollars to nations not to go Communist Is any more sensible than to give cash to average citizen to keep him from crime. • * « American taxpayers still pay huge sums lor foreign aid, but January may bring changes, ' « • * Although much was made tlMit session Jut ended voted less thmn $3 billion dollars In aid, fact re* mains that in the year Jut end ed 15,7 billion was spent on aid, while in this fiscal ytMr expen ditures of 16 billion are pli^ed. • • • But the disparity between ap propriation and expenditures is due to-fact money appropriated in past has yet to be spent. Al together foreign aid bureaus have some $15 billion to spend. * • * niere Is deep thongftt on using ^ Bf iDdipirlml STIniM By C. WILSON HARDER this money to lighten burden on C. S. taxpayer. For example, U. S. ponred around $3 billion in Indo-China war, but when ehipa were down, communists were handed victory. * • * Now Foreign Aid Administra tion is pouring millions into French North Africa supplying gasoline, copper, wood pi^, oth er items. At same time substan tial share of aid being given Spain is bought by U. S, foreign aid in French North Africa. * * • In fact, biggest change In for eign aid seems to be diverting opportunity for American busf ness and labor to benefit from these huge expenditures through buying giveniway materials from foreign nations. For example, British BJtodesia Is getting mon ey for new locomotives from U. S. foreign aid, but TJ. 8. builders must compete on bids with foreign* producers for business. * * • Shipyards in Communist Yugo slavia are building ships for u, 8. Navy. Yet when and if chips are down, there appears to l>e more uncertainty as to Yugo slavia’s eventuid course than there was over recent French decisions. • • • In meantime nation faces fact past billioaa given Europe devel oped their laduatrial maeUne to point where Europe slips Into U. 8. throngh non-existrat or weak taritr protection, enoagh goods to Idle at least SM,000 American workers. New tax measures, prinolpally those ex panding old New Deal principle of welfare state, have placed new burden on Just started, or slowfy expanding small business. Tea, it la rtrj bat along 4he Po* tomao now, birt many legtdatora are undoubtedly Hading heat •vea more anbearable at home where there appears more oon- oem over Mala Street aftairs tliaa i^bal aSabs. “... If it is teaching let us givA all we have . . Rom, 12:7, Teaching a child is a high privilege and a sacred trust. The teacher, therefore, needs a wholesome spiritual outlook. Let us as teachers ponder this grreat truth as we millions who go back to the classrooms of the nation. The very nature of teach ing makes it-a sacred trust. It Is a sacred trust because you as a teacher is committed to the great task -— THE SACRED TRUST—of helping to shape the delicate stuff of a human x>er- sonality. The teacher deals with the total child—the body, mind and soul. Your influence touches the very soul of the child—the most important thing in Code’s crea- ion. Thus the teacher’s job is a sacred trust entrusted to you by the state and its citizens, be the impftct BPd influence of your personality on the child? How will you affect the child and its total life dur ing the five hours, the five days and the nine months you have the child? With this sacred task the teacher ought bring to bear in the classroom the Spirit of the GREAT TEACHER; THE CHRIST. Why? A child can only grow strong, sturdy as God in tended in an atmosphere of love, understanding and cqmpassion. The Holy Spirit will create an atmosphere of growth for “the spirit produces in human life fruits . . . love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, fidelity . . . and sell control, . .” And in the second place the teacher should keep her soul and her classroom free from resent ment. It is unhealthy for the teacher and'the classroom. And thirdly the teacher ^hould guard against temper and anger. These are only festering sores in the soul. And further the teacher shoulfl strive to achieve the Biblical admonition of “Over coming evil with good , , ,” A teacher should bring a victorious bouyant sense of faith to the children and the classroom. This is especially true of a handicap ped people. Every teacher should bring to the classroom the indispensable spiritual virtue of hope: The spiritual power that keeps us humans from unnecessary des pair, discouragement and de feat. Finally and above all the teacher should bring to her sacred task LOVE! Without love you are unfit to teach. Why? Love is the magic key of Heaven and earth. Love is the one thing that makes life worthwhile, may have all and the best grees but if you have no love you are unworthy and unfit for YOUR SACRED TASK: THE TEACHING OF A CHILD! A man rich in learning, wisdom and spiritual insight stated it beautifully tv?o ''thousand years ago , , . "If I have no love I count for nothing . . .” STRAIGHT AHEAD NEW YORK When we were children, growing up in a suburban com munity, Montgomery Ward was one of the institutions we look ed upon as if it were the Rock of Gibralter. We never thought of it as belonging to anybody, or even bein£ run by anybody. It just seemed to have always been there. We wonder if U could ever have semed that way to Louis Wolfson, son of a Russian im migrant junk dealer, who, at the writing has succeeded in corner ing a goodly amount of the cor poration’s stock and seems de termined to get the controlling interest in the vast mail order bouse, Reading the accounts of this struggle beween Louis Wolfson and the aged but vital Sewell Avery, one cannot help but be impressed with the fact that this is a typically American story. It could happen nowhere else in the world. In fact,-Mr. Wolfson’s whole success story is American. We understand he began liis fabulous business career modest ly in 1932 when he borrowed $5,000 on his life Insurance and organized the Florida Pipe and Supply Company. This was a period when there was' a great deal of wildcat drilling around Jacksonville, and in the first years sales amounted to $100,- 000. In 1944, they exceeded $8 million. At the end of World War II, Wolfson sold the com pany at a profit of $2 Vi million. The business world has watch ed the meteoric rise of this forty- two-year-old industrialist who has succeeded in securing the controlling interest in several of this country’s most outstanding businesses, with assets in excess of $200 million. u On the other hand, there is Mr. Avery, who has been chair man of the board of Montgomery Ward for nearly a quarter of a century, has ruled it with an iron hand, and has shown him self on more than one occasion to be a fighter who considers no adversary too formidable for him to buck. It will be recalled that during World War II, when he refused to comply with a War Labor Board decision, resisting the government’s effort to take over his Chicago plant, he was carried out of his office bodily; The fight between these two evenly-matched opponents em phasizes the fact that America 'is indeed a land of opportunity. It seems one only has to know what to do with it, and if he has the business acumen to parlay a —By Olive A. Adana $5,000 loan into a vast flnanclg^w^i. empire, there is nothing to stop him. This is. certainly contrary to the popularly exressed belief that the wealth of this country is confined o a favored few. All of the businesses in America have been built from small be ginnings, Vast department stores have grown from pushcarts; fa bulous fortunes have grown from small initial investments; huge industrial plants have de veloped from tiny laboratories. The great wealth of this coun try may be controlled by a small circle, but the Wolfson story clearly demonstrates that the circle is not a closed one. BIS 6BKATEST ORBAII 0
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