PAGE TWO
THE CAKOLINA TIMES SATURDAY. SEPT. 25. 1954
HOMETOWN PRIDE
**If you wan to live in the
kiod of ■ town
Like tlie Idnd of a town you
like.
Yon need not slip your clotfaies
in a grip
And start on a long, long
hike.
For you will only find what
you left behind
There is nothtng that b really
new,
It’s a knock at yourself when
you knock your town,
It isn’t your town, it’s you.
Real towns are not made by
men afraid
That somebody else will get
ahead,
But when everybody works
and nobody shriks
You can raise a town from
the dead.
Your neighbor can make one,
too,
Your town will, be what you
want it to be;
It isn’t your town, it’s you.”
—Author Unknown
This newspaper has watch
ed with a degree of amuse
ment the sources from which
some of the objections to the
extension of the corporate
hmits of Durham come. In a
few instances, we have been
disturbed becmise there are
many fine and upright citi-
izens among the opposition
who impress us as being op
posed to this evidence of
growth and development of
Durham. They apparently
have given no serious thought
as to why.
It has been hard for us to
reconcile ourselves to the fact
that there is in the city of
Durham a single loyal citizen
who wants this community to
become stunted in growth
rather than to see its a grow
ing, thriving community. The
persons who opposite it ap
pear to us as l^ing blindly
led by the same ,eto»ent that
years ago, kept Durham from
having a main line railroad.
They constitute the same
crowd that objected to the
city and county spending
money for an airport, recrea
tion, and other important
items of a growing and pro
gressive community.
The very fact that the op
position is led by this non
progressive element of the
city ought to arouse every
loyal Durhamite to go to the
polls on this Saturday and
vote for extension of the city
limits. For, if Durham is to
hold its place among the lead
ing cities of the state, it will
not do so by following the
lead of those people, who for
selfish reasons, are opposed
to its growth, but by follow
ing citizens with vision and
fore-thought enough to sup
port measures toward that
end.
It is our sincere hope that
a majority of Negro voters,
as well as white, will not
stand in way of the progress
of Durham but will give evi
dence of their real interest in
its growth by voting for the
extension of its city limits on
next Saturday.
A NOBU MAN IN OUR MIDST
The only man in this world
who never makes a blunder is
the man who does nothing.
Most of the men and women
who succeed in the affairs of
mankind are those who have
learnt and heeded the many
good lessons that are to be
had from one’s own blunders
and those of our fellowmen.
To error is human, to have
the courage to confess one’s
errors and short-comings lifts
one out of the realm of ord
inary men to that of extra
ordinary.
The last week’s apology of
Editor E. R. Williamson on
his Eleanor Rush comment of
the previous week is one of
the finest things we have
ever seen done by a newspa
perman. It sets forth the writ
er in no unmistakable terms
as a very big and noble per
son, the type that is seldom
found in these parts. Editor
Williamson’s action sets a
fine example for all of us to
follow, as well as those of
the fourth estate.
Said Elbert Hubbard, “One
of the first signs of true
g. eatness is humility.” This
being the case, Durham has
in Editor Williamson one of
the great men of our time,
probably too great to be fully
appreciated by many of us
who think we are great. For
there is nothing so offensive
as a proud, overstuffed and
arrogant little fellow of medi
ocre achievements who, not
having a true estimate of hu
man values, will not admit
his own shortcomings.
We of the Carolina Times
are happy to live in
the same city with, such a
noble character as the editor
of the Labor Journal. His
example of righteous hum
ility is one that we shall en
deavor to learn and to put in
to practice as the years come
and go.
GEIIING ALONG
BY LAUREEN WHITE
NEW YORK
We are grateful for the fact
that people now and then take
us for an employment agency
and seek our help in finding
worthy young men and women
to fill this posUion or that. It
makes us keep in touch with the
fast pace at wihch we are mov
ing toward the inclusion of Ne
groes in the general pattern of
American life. We have tried to
track down everything from
stenographers to engineers for
people, promising to keep a
weather eye out, and sometimes
filling the bill, but more often,
not.
But the requests keep com
ing at intervals, and have been
for soipe time now, and it be
comes increasingly apparent
that doors are opening right
and left,.often in fields we have
not yet covered sufficiently to
supply any great numbers. For
instance, the Engineering De
partment at one of the well
known Negro colleges, is one
of the finest in the country, and
its graduates are absorbed into
industry as fast as they can be
turned out. There is a crying
need for technical men in this
country and, as it , has been
pointed out more than once, our
production of these highly skill
ed scientists has diminished,
while that of Russia has in
creased many times. Our
young Negro technicians face
little, if any, discrimination in
this field and while the jobs
they get are admittedly not yet
top level, once they get a foot
in the door, the sky will be the
limit. But only very small num
bers of our young people take
advantage of this type of train
ing.
An official of one of New
York’s Savings banks, just last
week was bemoaning the fact
that he had not yet been able
to find a young accountant, in
terested in a future in the bank'
ing business, to add to his staff.
His institution is growing,
working in a constantly ex
panding market. But, he says,
there just don’t ^ seem to be
enough young men around who
think in erms of jobs requiring
executive ability.
These arp only two examples
of new territory to be explored,
and should set us immediately
preparing ourselves in allied
fields, looking in every direc
tion for the means to expand
our knowledge and experience,
and to inspire our young people
to train with these larger hori
zons in mind. For many years,
Negroes were so circumscribed
that they could only look for
ward with any certainty to pur
suing careers as teachers, minis
ters, doctors, lawyers, dentists,
and social workers; and they
were able to follow these only
as the demand was created for
their services among Negroes.
It is understandable, therefore,
that over the years they may
have over-trained in these
fields; but it is our responsibili
ty now, to pull out of that rut.
We aren’t out of the woods
by a long shot. We still have
that bloody battle to fight for
basic human rights. We have to
keep up the struggle to get
great masses of our poeple out
of the slums, and secure for
them an education that will
equip them for coping with a
more complicated existence. We
have to keep plugging for re
cognition of our investment In
this country, our economic pow
er, our abilities.
But we are on the march, and
we have to get in step or the
parade may leave us ehind.
WASHINGTON AND
"SMALL BUSINESS
STRONG WORDS FOR OUR TIMES
The Rev. Charles Jones,
dynamic minister of Chapel
Hill, exploded another bomb
this week that has fairly rock
ed the Christian churches of
the South. The explosion
came about in his sermon last
Sunday morning concerning
the matter of segregating the
remains of departed white
and Negro citizens in the pro
posed jiew^hapelJ^ muni
cipal cemetery. The good old
southern pro - segregationists
of the town have enacted
an ordinance providing that
there shall be one secton for
Negroes and another section
for other races.
Says Rev. Jones;
“Now the Christian church
stands for what We call a “de
cent Christian burial.’ I sub
mit that it is going to be im
possible to give a decent
Christian burial in that cem
etery. It’s absurd, it’s foolish, says that God believes in and
and at the very time we are practices segregation and this
trying to eliminate peacefully being true it is certain He
and calmly segregation in life would not stand for mixing
we want to perpetuate it in of the races in the ghost
death. world.
“One wonders where the
fear is to be found. To be sure
buried children can not play
together and there can be no
intermarriage. What a spirit
of illiberaliiy there is ^en
folk cannot lie in peace in
death together.”
Now these are strong
words, probably too strong
for our day and time. They
are shocking, embarrassing
and disturbing. For what
good southerne rof the Zalph
Rochelle type is there who
believes that the ghost of a
white southern would dare
practice social equality with
the ghost of a Negro? Zalph
Probably the citizens of
Chapel Hill could be assured
of perpetuating segregation
in their cemetery by erecting
a wall between the white and
Negroseetions of it with signs
reading “white ghosts” and
“Negro ghosts.”
Sometimes in the course of
history it takes men like
Charles Jones to show us just
how stupid we are about some
of our most cherished cus
toms. Such men blaze across
the firmament of the ages,
spitting fire as they go, fire
that burns, consumes de
stroys. Without them human
ity would never rise to new
heights.
THE ECONOMICS OF DESEGREGATION
We salute Harnett County
school officials for standing
their ground on the matter of
holding a scheduled inter-
ricial teachers meeting for the
opening of school. Reports
that several white teachers
were opposed to an unsegre
gated meeting and would not
attend turned out to be one
of those incidents that did
not materialize.
The action of the Harnett
County school officials just
goes to show what can be
done when those in authority
use a little courage in matters
of this kind, and presents a
fine example for others to fol
low in making the change,
over from segregated to un
segregated schools.
Now that the meeting has
been held, even the most
prejudiced teacher is com--
pelled to realize how stupid
it has been in the past to hold
separate meetings for the
same purpose. Also those who
opposed a mixed meeting
must feel somewhat ashamed
that they objected to it when
so much saving of time, en
ergy and money can be real
ized.
This brings us around to
the question of just what a
stupendous amount it is cost
ing the South, the most
poverty stricken area of the
nation, to indulge in the
luxury of segregation. The
millions of dollars spent to
maintain a dual system of
education are enough, if pro
perly spent on a non-segre-
gated one, to bring southern
schools up to the standard of
those in other sections of the
country.
One thing is certain there
is not enough money in the
South to maintain two stand-
ized school systems and any
movement toward complying
with the desegregation order
of the U. S. Supreme Court op
the matter of public schools is
a movement toward raising
the economic level of the en
tire South as well as its edu
cational standing.
SATURDAY
SEPT. 25, 1954
L. E. AUSTIN Publisher
M. E. JOHNSON, Business Manager
R* J. Haynes. AdvertiKinor
CLATHAN M. ROSS, Editor
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•gala I>eiiig jwtwttd o old
mudm that mbm p«o|il« given
•a Indt iMk a mil*.
• • *
OMIfonila, Iflu New Torii, has
a milk control act, which flxea
fresh mOk prloea tram prodaoer
down to retailer tiireii|4i a milk
oontrol
At pros
milk In
fomte to
per qnari
The milk
control act In
California wai!
designed tb at-|
tack twin evila.
One was thatl
California law C.W. Hardar
insists on high standards for
fresh milk. Dairymen preferred
to produce mantifacturing milk,
rather than me«t rlglrt fra«h
milk ipeciflcatlons.
* * a
When enacted mOk price wars
by retailers nainr milk «s a loss
leader, effected dairymen’s prlo-
, es. CoDseqaently fresh milk
supply kept dwindltnc.
* a •
Therefore, a law was passed
to insure adequate supplies of
fresh milk by guaranteeing high
er prices to market milk pro
ducers over manufacturing milk.
Distributor and retailer prices
are also set.
» • a
At the time there were a >om-
ber of independent dairy distrib
utors operating, hat their nnm-
hers dwindled over the years.
* • a
Borden’s, Arden Farms and
Oolden State emerged as big
leaders. At one time Golden
State was .headed by Standard
Oil executives.
* * a
Golden State recently was tak
en over by nationwide Foremost
Dairies who also bought a strong
dairy cooperative.
* • a
In the meantime, Arden
© Natlon>l yedfrttlon of Indepeadtnt
By C. WILSON HARDER
raims, haadquartered la Loi
Angeles, with branches up anl
down flie Paelfle Coast apparsnt-
Ij decided It was not si^eiSBt
grooarr store dlstrlbutloii, «)d
to gain that end, entered grocery
business, buying control ^ May*
fair stbrei, a big chain opera
tion In Southern California,
which controls Andrew Williams
stores, a northern California
chain, Arden also bought out
four big wholesale grocers.
* • *
Ulus operations ot big dairy
combines, eqieolally their abil
ity to buy op whole seta of re
tail and wholesale grocery out
lets indicates milk distrihntion
to a profitable basinets. Some
estimate half of California milk
retail price goes to distribotors.
• « *
Now California milk distribut
ing Jndusb^ asks Milk Control
Board to ordw dlitrlKutdra to
charge grocers 2Sc service fee
every time milk is delivered
them. This 25c Is ]ust a start to
ward bigger service fees. It li
felt. Although board has not act
ed yet, no one knows how much
pressure politically appointed
Milk Control Board can with
stand.
* a *
Bo there to a great deal of
national Interest over what hap
pens In California milk industry,
now that control ot milk supply
to concentrated la very few
hands. Current attempt to charge
(rooera for seilinc them milk
may be forerunner of a series
of attempta te aaddle California
with one ef the tightest, strong
est monopoly systems that West
ern oivUliatlon has ever encount
ered. Some Interests with mon
opoly intentior.s are attempting
to use this as excose for Jiuk-
Ing entire milk control law. If
this should happen It to felt that
out of the resulting chaos, one,
or at' the most two, dairies,
woidd then gain control of the
entire state mHk Industry.
"Talks Like Him, And Acts Like Him."
AHHH-Itt
UX>K UKB
HIM,TOO!
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Spiritual Insight
“Four Steps In Soul Growth”
BY REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Redbook Magazine Gives Preview
Of How Interracial Integration
May Affect Southern Education
A preview of how racial in
tegration may affect edacatlon
in the South has been provided
by a group of three Delaware
schools, according to an article
by William Feelers in the Octo
ber issue, of REDBOOK Maga
zine.
All three schools are within
a short distance of Wilmington,
Delaware's largest city. Two of
them-Claymont High School
and Hockessin School No. 29-
accepted Negro students for the
fipSl'time in September, 1952,
as a result of a court ruling
which found the corresponding
Negro schools “unequal,” a
finding upheld by the Delaware
Supreme Court. The third
school, Arden Elementary
School, voluntarily-and In de
fiance of the State Constitution-
opened its doors to colored
children at the same time.
RE3DBOOK reports that al
though strongly varied attitude^
were voiced, no untoward inci
dents occurred. The few pro
tests from parents ended quick
ly when met by firm resistance
on the part of school officials.
Mrs. Grace Moore, principal of
Hockessin School No. 29 re
ported, “One mother called me
right after we admitted Negro
children. She said, I’d like to
know why my child can’t sit
next to white children.’ I knew
that if I changed one seat, I’d
be through. I told her I wasn't
going to change anybody’s seat,
and after that, no one else call
ed about seating. Most of these
difficulties came at the begin
ning. Now, after two years, I
think a lot of that feeling has
broken down.”
One of the teachers at the
same school, who has taught
school 19 years, said, “I Just
don’t think we’re ready for in
tegration, and I know It means
trouble with the white parents.
There, haven’t been any prob
lems with the colored parents
at all. I can’t see why Negro
children can’t Just go to their
own schools, the way they did
before. But if we have to inte-
“Stand in awe and sin not...
commune with your own
heart...and be still...Offer sac
rifices of righteousness...and
put your trust in the Lord...”
Psalms 4:4,5.
The Psalmist gives four indi
spensable steps in the spiritual
awakening and the growth of
a soul: Self awakening, self
communion, self confession and
self abandonment. How do you
stand in these steps of spiritual
and moral growth? Am I grow
ing in moral awareness or a
keener sense of what is RIGHT
and WRONG? Am I in harmony
with the moral law? Do I have
a fine sense of reverence? Am
I mature enough to face sin and
confess it? Am I aware that my
sickness may be rooted in a
GUILTY CONSCIENCE? Am I
aware of the fact that selfish
ness is the root of so much of
the troubles of our times? Am
I aware of the fact that so much
of our fears and anxieties are
rooted in a lack of simple faitF
and trust in the power of the
Almighty God?
A great spiritual need of the
times is a simple, childlike faith
and trust in God.
Reverence is the first step
in the religious awakening of
your soul to stand in reverence
bfefore the HIGH AND THE
HOLY ONE. Many have lost the
majesty of Holy Reverence. Too
many now reverence neither
God nor man. Reverence and
'lawlessness go together. The in
crease in crime among youths
in the nation has come in the
past fourteen years; THE
PERIOD OF WAR! We had no
reverence for human life. If you
have no reverence for human
life, what is there to be reverent
about? NOTHING. We have
glorified violence, bloodshed,
and death. We have become
somewhat irreverent toward the
finer things of the spirit and the
Moral Law. LET US REDIS
COVER THE GREAT TRUTH
OF THE AGES GOD AND
HOLINESS ARE THE ONLY
THINGS WORTH LIVING
FOR.
We all need the spiritual and
moral awareness expressed by
the prophet... “COME LET US
WALK IN THE LIGHT OF
JEHOVAH...‘'Let' us find X5oi
and our lost sense of reverence,
Honest self communion is the
second step in the Religious
awakening and growth of a
soul. We are reminded to com
mune with and search our
hearts. Many know what’s"
wrong with our neighbor. But
we will not face the unclean
ness of our own hearts. What
about your heart, n»y friend?
Is your own heart pleasing to a
righteous God? Let us steal
away into his Holy presence
and take a look at our own
hearts. After all, it will take
about all of your time, with
the help of God, to get your
heart right. This’ inner soul
searching comes through medi
tation, prayer and study of
God’s holy word.
Confession is needed for the
healing and cleansing of your
soul. Confession heals and re
stores the sick soul. Take your
soul sickness to the healer of
souls. Turn to him with the
prayer of healing and cleansing.
"CREATE IN ME A CLEAN
HEART...RENEW A RIGHT
SPIRIT WITHIN ME...” Why
bear thhe burden of Guilt when
God is ready to take it away?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
And the fourth, and final step
d in ITie awaTc^in^ of your soul
is found in self abandonment.
How is this achieved? We must
cease relying on self. WE MUST
PUT OUR WHOLE TRUST IN
GOD. Trust in things is not the
solution. Trust in men will not
r|^satisfy...“PUT YOUR TRUST
IN GOD...”
STRAIGHT AHEAD
NEW YORK
The United States has a popu
lation of about 150,000,000.
Through the efforts of this
population, (arid their ances
tors) this country has attained
a position of world leadership.
We have more money, more la
bor-saving devices, more instru
ments of warfare and more
general know-how than any
other nation.
But the United States has
not mastered the art of getting
along wih other nations. Arro
gance and color prejudice have
not endeared her to the other
nations of the world. Recent
events in Western Europe and
Asia impress that fact upon us.
Should a \frar come, we would
have no strong nation as an
ally.
Russia has a population of
about 200,000,000. Through va
rious methods, she controls
about 500,000,000 more inhabi-
tan^. Russia doesn’t have the
money, labor-saving devices, or
general know-how, that we
have, but she does hav^nfinite
more people. These ■ 'people
are capable of acuiring every
advantage we have. With these
advantages, more man power
and intense aislike, the United
States would not be in a very
good position.
President Eisehnower and
Vice President Nixon are aware
of this condition. They are try
ing to do something about it,
too. Recently they appealed to
the nation’s business and labor
leaders for more help in the ad
ministration's program to end
employment discrimination a-
mong whites and Negroes. In
—By OUtc a. Adama
their message to business and
labor leaders two points were
stressed:
“First, the growing industrial
might of this country. requires
the largest possile reserve of
skilled manpower.
“Second, in the world strug
gle for the minds of men, A-
merica’s position of leadership
makes it mandatory that we not
be subject to the charge of ra
cial prejudice which is being
hurled at us every day by the
Communists.”
The leaders of our country’s
government know what is hap
pening in the world. They know
how desperately we would need
every talent and every .skill
possessed by every American in
case a showdown with Russia
comes up.
grate our school, at least I know
it can be done. We’ve had color
ed children here two years now,
and nothing very bad has hap
pened.”
One of the teachers from the
Negro school said, “I’m not
opposed to integrated schools,
but I’ve -talked with some of
the colored children at No. 29,
and they aren’t too happy there.
Most of the colored children
are still right here. They’re used
to having their own school, and
they like to have their children
taught by a jiolored teacher.”
REDBOOK points out that
children show the least concern.
Miss Claire Byler, the girls’
physical education teacher at
Claymont High School said,
"Basically, I think the white
children have accepted integra
tion. We have colored girls on
the field hockey, softball and
basketball teams—all teams that
play against other schools,
white schools. The one colored
girl'on the basketball team was
so popular the other girls elect
ed her captain.”
Merle Anderson, one of the
Negro girls to attend Claymont
High School, was graduated
from the high school last June.
In the graduating class with her
was a pretty, eigteen-year-old
white girl who saiH, "r didn’t
have any particular feeling
when I heard that Claymont
would have colored kids. My
father didn’t see why they
changed things, but he didn’t do
anything about it. My mother
had no feeling one way or an
other. Some of the eNegro stu
dents have been assets to_the
school—Merle Anderson is one.
I think she's beenaccepted by
everyone. The same is true of
some of the others.”
Harvey E. Stahl, Superinten
dent of schools of Claymont,
Delaware, summed up the Dela
ware situation by saying, ‘“Of?
course integaration works. It
works if ypu want it to work.
And maybe if you don’t
For to be carnally minded Is
death; but to be spiri^nally
minded Is life and peace.—
(Romans 8i 6.)
One becomes spiritually
minded when, by acts of his
will, he rejects evil, unworthy,
selfish thoughts, acts and de
sires, and tunes in, through de
vout prayer, to the source of
kM good, all love, all strengrth,
which ie God. Then, and then
only, will we find peace and
hawifcwas.^ —1 and Hating. I